Air Kazakhstan
| Air Kazakhstan | |
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| IATA code : | 9Y |
| ICAO code : | KZK |
| Call sign : | AIR KAZAKSTAN |
| Founding: | 1996 |
| Operation stopped: | 2004 |
| Seat: |
Almaty , Kazakhstan
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| Company form: | State enterprise |
| Fleet size: | 30th |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Air Kazakhstan ceased operations in 2004. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Air Kazakhstan was a national Kazakh airline based in Almaty .
history
Air Kazakhstan was founded on October 8, 1996 as Kazakhstan Airways , but later changed the name to Air Kazakhstan and began operations on March 10, 1997.
insolvency
On February 29, 2004 the company was insolvent. In April 2004, she was declared bankrupt by a local court. Air Astana was the successor as the national airline .
aims
Air Kazakhstan operated domestic and international flights from Almaty Airport .
fleet
Up until the end of flight operations in February 2004, Air Kazakhstan's fleet consisted of 30 aircraft:
- 12 Antonov An-24
- 2 Ilyushin Il-86
- 1 Tupolev Tu-134 A
- 7 Tupolev Tu-154 B
- 8 Yakovlev Yak-40
Incidents
- Air Kazakhstan was involved in a serious air accident in the air: On the evening of November 12, 1996 an Ilyushin Il-76 of Air Kazakhstan with 27 passengers and 10 crew members on board collided with a Boeing 747-168B of Saudi Arabian Airlines ( flight 763 ) over the village of Charkhi Dadri, Haryana (India), so that both fell on fields. All 349 occupants of both machines were killed.
The reason was human error on the part of the Air Kazakhstan pilots, who did not understand the instructions and warnings of the local air traffic control, which - as is customary internationally - were given in English. This was and is so far the most serious collision in the air in civil aviation and the third most serious accident ever (see also Kazakhstan Airlines flight 1907 ) .
See also
Web links
Commons : Air Kazakhstan - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ aerotransport.org - Air Kazakhstan fleet (English) accessed on April 23, 2010
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)