Swiftair
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| Founded | 1986 | ||||||
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| Fleet size | 41 | ||||||
| Headquarters | Madrid, Spain | ||||||
| Website | http://www.swiftair.com/ | ||||||
Swiftair S.A. is an airline headquartered in Madrid, Spain.[1] It operates scheduled and charter, passenger and cargo flights in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Its main base is Madrid–Barajas Airport.
History
The airline was founded in 1986.[2] It wholly owns subsidiary Mediterranean Air Freight. Currently Swiftair is also a United Nations contractor with one MD-83 based in Khartoum (Sudan) for the United Nations Mission in Sudan.
Swiftair has selected the Boeing 737-300F (converted freighter) from Bedek Aviation (Israel Aerospace Industries) as the basis of its future European freighter fleet. The first aircraft was delivered in May 2007 on lease from AWAS.[3]
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Fleet
The Swiftair fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of 2 April 2016):[4]
| Aircraft | Active | Orders |
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| ATR 42 | ||
| ATR 72 | ||
| Boeing 737-300 | ||
| Boeing 737-400 | ||
| Embraer EMB-120 | ||
| Total | 45 | 0 |
Incidents
- In October 1994 one of its aircraft was written off when the crew forgot to lower the landing gear as the plane arrived in Madrid.
- In May 1995, another aircraft was damaged beyond repair during a botched landing at Vitoria airport in Spain.
- In July 1998 two crew were killed when a cargo aircraft crashed en route to Barcelona when the pilot lost control of the plane.
- In January 2012 a plane sustained substantial damage during a botched landing at Kandahar.
- On July 24, 2014 a MD83 operated by the company performed scheduled flight AH5017 from Ouagadougou to Algiers for Algerian airline Air Algérie. The aircraft disappeared off radar 50 minutes after takeoff.[5]
- On January 18, 2016, an Embraer 120 freighter took out runway edge lights during its takeoff roll at Amsterdam Schiphol airport, on a flight to London Stansted. No injuries occurred.
References
- ↑ "Contact." Swiftair. Retrieved on 26 January 2011. "Ingeniero Torres Quevedo, 14 | Pol. Ind. “Fin de Semana” Crta. Madrid/Barcelona Km. 13.100 | 28022 - Madrid."
- ↑ "About us." Swiftair. Retrieved on 26 January 2011.
- ↑ "ATR 72 order for Swiftair". Airliner World. July 2007. p. 6.
- ↑ https://www.planespotters.net/airline/Swiftair
- ↑ "rance says Air Algerie pilots had asked to turn back before fatal crash". Herald Globe. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
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