Ariana Afghan Airlines

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Ariana Afghan Airlines
د آریانا افغان هوائی شرکت
Ariana Afghan Airlines logo
Airbus A310-300 of Ariana Afghan Airlines
IATA code : FG
ICAO code : AFG
Call sign : ARIANA
Founding: 1955
Seat: Kabul , AfghanistanAfghanistanAfghanistan 
Home airport : Kabul airport
Company form: State property
IATA prefix code : 255
Management: Moin Khan Wardak ( CEO )
Frequent Flyer Program : Reward Club
Fleet size: 6th
Aims: National and international
Website: www.flyariana.com

Ariana Afghan Airlines (Pashto د آریانا افغان هوائی شرکت ; Persian هواپیمایی آریانا) is the national airline of Afghanistan with its seat in Kabul and base at Kabul Airport .

history

Foundation and first years

McDonnell Douglas DC-10 of Ariana Afghan Airlines

Ariana Afghan Airlines Co. Ltd. was founded on January 28, 1955. The Afghan Indama Corp. provided the first Douglas DC-3 aircraft and received 49% of the shares. Pan American World Airways took over these shares in 1956 . The international routes at that time were Delhi , Ankara , Beirut , Prague and Frankfurt . Used came Douglas DC-4 and later Douglas DC-6 . In 1968 the airline received its first Boeing 727 , followed by a McDonnell Douglas DC-10 in October 1979.

Even after the invasion of the Soviet Army in 1979, the Ariana's flight operations were maintained. In March 1985, the fleet only had the DC-10 and two Boeing 727-100C. In April 1985, under Soviet pressure, the company was forced to sell the McDonnell Douglas DC-10s to British Caledonian and buy three Tupolev Tu-154s instead. In October 1985, Ariana was taken over by the Afghan regional airline Bakhtar Afghan Airlines , which with this step became the national airline. In 1987 two Tupolev Tu-154M were delivered to Bakhtar. In 1988 the two companies were merged under the name Ariana Afghan Airlines to form one airline serving both national and international destinations. The international destinations flown from Kabul were only Amritsar , Delhi, Moscow and Tashkent ; the fleet consisted of two Tu-154M, two Boeing 727-100, two Antonow An-26 , two Antonow An-24 , two Jakowlew Jak-40 and one de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter .

After the Taliban came to power in 1996, many of the remaining international ties were severed as a result of the rulers' policy of isolation. only countries such as India , Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were served. The fleet was reduced to a few machines, including some Antonov , one Jakowlew Jak-40 and three Boeing 727s . According to the Los Angeles Times report , the airline was in the service of al-Qaeda and carried militant Islamists to Afghanistan for them. In October 1999, due to international sanctions, there was officially only one connection to Dubai . In October 2001, seven aircraft in the fleet were devastated in a US bombardment at Kabul Airport. In November 2001 flight operations were completely stopped. Only a Boeing 727 and an Antonov An-24 remained of the fleet.

Development since 2001

After the Taliban was ousted at the end of 2001, Ariana resumed operations in December 2001. The first international connection to New Delhi was opened in January 2002. As a gesture of goodwill, the Indian government made three Airbus A300s available to Air India for international routes. In October 2002, a weekly connection to Frankfurt am Main was set up, which was served by an Airbus A300.

In March 2006, the airline was added to the list of operating bans for the airspace of the European Union and was not allowed to fly with its own aircraft in the airspace of the European Union . From April 2008, two weekly flights to Frankfurt am Main were carried out with a leased (and therefore exempted from the flight ban) Boeing 757-200 . At the beginning of 2009 an Airbus A310, which was also chartered, was flown with a stopover in Istanbul, and from January 2010 the airline was again allowed to fly directly from Kabul to Frankfurt am Main without a stopover in Istanbul. However, this permission was revoked on July 7, 2010 by the EU Commission. On October 1, 2011, the connection from Kabul to Frankfurt was suspended.

Destinations

Ariana Afghan Airlines serves connections within Afghanistan as well as in the Middle East , Turkey and Russia .

fleet

Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727-200

As of March 2020, the Ariana Afghan Airlines fleet consists of six aircraft with an average age of 27.4 years:

Aircraft type number ordered Remarks Seats
( Business / Economy )
Airbus A310-300 1 Former Turkish Airlines machine , built in 1989 237 (- / 237)
Boeing 737-400 3 two inactive; former Turkish Airlines aircraft , built in 1993 142 (8/134)
Boeing 737-500 1 Taken over from Linhas Aéreas de Moçambique , built in 1998 108 (12/99)
Boeing 767-200ER 1
total 6th -

Incidents

Ariana Afghan Airlines recorded 24 total losses in its history, of which 8 incidents with 156 fatalities. The majority of the total losses were due to acts of war or terrorism.

  • On November 21, 1959, an Ariana Douglas DC-4 ( aircraft registration YA-BAG ) collided with a mountain just a few minutes after taking off from Beirut Airport, thirty kilometers northeast of the airfield. Of the 27 occupants, only 3 passengers survived.
  • On January 5, 1969, an Ariana Boeing 727-113C (YA-FAR) was flown into the ground during a night approach to London-Gatwick Airport ( Controlled flight into terrain ). The approach was started in heavy fog with a visibility of 100 meters, although the required minimum visibility was 400 meters. The machine coming from Frankfurt fell below the glide path of the instrument landing system and was no longer intercepted in time. It hit about 2.5 kilometers from the runway and broke, killing 48 of the 62 people on board and two people on the ground.
  • On December 10, 1988, an Antonov An-26 of the Ariana (license number unknown) was allegedly shot down by Pakistani air forces on a domestic flight from Khost to Kabul , which they denied. There were 25 people on board, and most likely none of them survived.
  • On June 18, 1989, another Antonov An-26 had to make an emergency landing on the way from Kabul to Saranj in mountainous terrain after the freight ramp opened in flight for unknown reasons. Six out of 39 people on board were killed and the machine was seriously damaged.
  • On September 11, 1995, an Antonov An-26 (YA-BAO) had an accident while approaching Jalalabad . She hit the runway due to a lack of fuel, killing 3 out of 46 people on board.
  • On October 29, 1997, a Jakowlew Jak-40 of the Ariana (YA-KAE) also had an accident while landing in Jalalabad, killing one person.
  • On May 8, 2014 shot Boeing 737-400 (YA-PIB) at Kabul airport on runway 29 also. An ILS antenna was severely damaged in the process. The aircraft only came to a standstill outside the runway, on the edge of a bypass. The 132 occupants of the flight coming from New Delhi were evacuated using the escape slides . The aircraft was totaled.

See also

Web links

Commons : Ariana Afghan Airlines  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Pashtun language . December 30, 2017 ( duden.de [accessed February 1, 2018]).
  2. ^ Ariana Afghan Airlines. Retrieved February 1, 2018 .
  3. ^ World airline directory - Ariana Afghan Airlines, Flight International, March 30, 1985
  4. ^ USSR Forced Ariana DC-10 Sale, Flight International, April 27, 1985
  5. ^ World airline directory - Ariana Afghan Airlines, Flight International, March 26, 1988
  6. ↑ Market Place, Flight International, May 23, 1987 ( August 18, 2012 memento on WebCite )
  7. ^ World airline directory - Ariana Afghan Airlines, Flight International, March 26, 1988
  8. ^ World airline directory - Ariana Afghan Airlines, Flight International, March 26, 1988
  9. ↑ a b The New York Times - US Presses Security Council for Sanctions Against the Taliban, October 7, 1999 (English)
  10. ↑ Los Angeles Times - Long Before Sept. 11, Bin Laden Aircraft Flew Under the Radar, November 18, 2001
  11. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  12. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  13. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  14. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  15. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  16. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  17. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  18. ↑ a b Alan Johnston: Afghan airline returns to the skies, BBC News, December 4, 2001 ( August 19, 2012 memento on WebCite )
  19. ↑ a b Marcus George: Afghan airline battles for the skies, BBC News, December 12, 2001 ( August 19, 2012 memento on WebCite )
  20. ↑ The Times of India - Ariana resumes operations with New Delhi flight, January 24, 2002 (English)
  21. ↑ Nicholas Ionides: Ariana set to take delivery of first Indian A300, Flight International, July 23, 2002
  22. ^ The Times of India - India gifts third airbus to Afghanistan, March 7, 2003
  23. ^ Ariana Afghan back on Western Europe route, Flight International, October 1, 2002 ( Memento of August 20, 2012 on WebCite )
  24. ↑ a b European Commission - - List of air carriers that are prohibited from operating in the EU, accessed on October 30, 2015
  25. ↑ flyariana.com - News ( Memento from September 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English), accessed on September 20, 2011
  26. ↑ flyariana.com - Destinations (English), accessed on April 9, 2018
  27. ^ Ariana Afghan Airlines Fleet Details and History. Retrieved March 18, 2020 .
  28. ↑ flyariana.com - Fleet Information (English), accessed on April 30, 2017
  29. ↑ Accident Statistics Ariana Afghan Airlines , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 2, 2020.
  30. ^ Accident report DC-4 YA-BAG , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 27, 2018.
  31. ^ Accident report B-727-100 YA-FAR , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 27, 2018.
  32. ^ Accident report AN-26 YA -... , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 2, 2020.
  33. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
  34. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report AN-26 YA-BAO in the Aviation Safety Network , accessed on March 19, 2017.
  35. ^ Accident report Jak-40 YA-KAE , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 2, 2020.
  36. ^ Accident report B-727-200 YA-FAZ , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 24, 2019.
  37. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report B-737-400 YA-PIB in the Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 19, 2017.
  38. ↑ Planespotters B-737-400 YA-PIB , (English), accessed on March 19, 2017.
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