Crossair Europe
| Crossair Europe | |
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| IATA code : | QE |
| ICAO code : | ECC |
| Call sign : | CIGOGNE |
| Founding: | 1997 |
| Operation stopped: | 2005 |
| Seat: |
Saint-Louis , France
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| Home airport : | Basel Mulhouse Freiburg |
| Fleet size: | 5 |
| Aims: | national and continental |
| Crossair Europe ceased operations in 2005. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Crossair Europe - officially Europe Continental Airways , ECA for short - was a French airline based at Basel-Mulhouse airport .
history
The company was founded in 1997 as a subsidiary of the Swiss Crossair in order to give it access to the European internal market , which was only possible with restrictions for airlines based in Switzerland due to their non-membership in the European Union .
After the end of Swissair , the new Swiss airline SWISS was created on the basis of its subsidiary Crossair . Since then, Crossair Europe has flown as a subsidiary and on behalf of SWISS .
fleet
- 3 Saab 340B ( aircraft registration F-GPKD , F-GPKG and F-GPKM )
- 2 Saab 2000 (license plate F-GOZI and HB-IZJ )
Incidents
- On July 10, 2002, the pilots of a Saab 2000 on the LX 850 flight from Basel to Hamburg initially moved to Berlin-Tegel Airport due to bad weather conditions . Due to a lack of fuel, the aircraft was radar-guided and forwarded to the Werneuchen special airfield , where it started to land . When touching down, the aircraft hit an earth wall, which broke off all three landing gear, which resulted in the total loss of the aircraft.
See also
Web links
Commons : Crossair Europe - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ↑ Report: Crossair SB20 at Werneuchen on Jul 10th 2002, landed before runway and impacted earth wall. The Aviation Herald , December 20, 2010, accessed May 24, 2014 .
- ↑ Investigation report AX002-0 / 02 from October 2010 (PDF; 3.65 MB) Federal Aircraft Accident Investigation Agency , November 3, 2010, accessed on May 24, 2014 .
