Hinduja Cargo Services
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| IATA code : | LF |
| ICAO code : | LCI |
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| Founding: | 1996 |
| Operation stopped: | 2000 |
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New Delhi , India
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| Home airport : | Indira Gandhi International Airport |
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| Fleet size: | 3 |
| Aims: | international |
| Hinduja Cargo Services ceased operations in 2000. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Hinduja Cargo Services , also Lufthansa Cargo India , was an Indian cargo airline based in New Delhi .
history
Hinduja Cargo Services was founded on February 9, 1996. The German Lufthansa Cargo took a 40% stake in the start-up, while the Hinduja Group held the remaining 60%. Operations began on May 9, 1997 with two Boeing 727-200Fs on routes that Lufthansa Cargo had previously served with Douglas DC-8 aircraft . This included flights from the hub in Sharjah to various Indian airports as well as regional freight transports in India itself.
In April 2000 Lufthansa Cargo announced the end of the cooperation because the demand for cargo flights to India had clearly exceeded its own expectations. It was planned to carry out the flights in the future directly from Frankfurt with machines of the type McDonnell Douglas MD-11F ; This was accompanied by a time saving of seven to eight hours.
Destinations
The company recently served Bangalore , Calcutta , Colombo , New Delhi , Karachi , Kathmandu , Lahore , Mumbai , Sharjah and Thiruvananthapuram .
fleet
In April 2000 the fleet consisted of three Boeing 727-200Fs .
Incidents
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- On July 7, 1999, a Boeing 727-243 (F) from Hinduja Cargo Services with the aircraft registration number VT-LCI was flown into a chain of hills about 15 kilometers south of the departure airport five minutes after take-off from Kathmandu airport and was completely destroyed. After taking off, the aircraft on Lufthansa Flight 8533, which was operated on behalf of Lufthansa Cargo , did not climb sufficiently in a curve that was too flat and collided with the terrain at an altitude of 7,550 feet. All five crew members were killed. The main causes were the not reaching the departure procedure, the defective briefing by the captain, insufficient coordination within the cockpit crew and much too slow response to the repeated warnings of the ground proximity warning system (ground proximity warning system) (see also Lufthansa Cargo Flight 8533 ) .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d Flightglobal Archive: World Airline Directory - Lufthansa Cargo India . In: Flight International 4 - 10 April 2000. Retrieved on April 20, 2016 (English)
- ↑ ch-aviation.com: Airline Information - Hinduja Cargo Services (English), accessed on April 20, 2016
- ↑ Flightglobal Archive: Lufthansa completes cargo formalities . In: Flight International 3 - 9 April 1996. Retrieved on April 20, 2016 (English)
- ↑ Flightglobal Archive: Lufthansa Cargo drops Hinduja link . In: Flight International 4 - 10 April 2000. Retrieved on April 20, 2016 (English)
- ↑ Accident report Boeing 727-200 VT-LCI , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 2, 2019.
- ↑ Flightglobal Archive: Hinduja 727 freighter accident leaves no clues . In: Flight International July 14 - 20, 1999. Retrieved April 20, 2016 (English)
