JetLink Express
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| IATA code : | J0 |
| ICAO code : | JLX |
| Call sign : | KEN JET |
| Founding: | 2006 |
| Operation stopped: | 2012 |
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Nairobi , Kenya
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| Home airport : | Nairobi |
| Company form: | Limited |
| Management: | Elly Aluvale |
| Fleet size: | 7th |
| Aims: | regional |
| JetLink Express ceased operations in 2012. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
JetLink Express was a Kenyan airline based in Nairobi and based at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport .
history
The company was registered as a Limited Company in Kenya in March 2006 and was a member of IATA . JetLink Express began commercial flight operations in 2005 with flights from the city of Juba in South Sudan .
The company ceased operations in November 2012 for financial reasons.
Destinations
From its base at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, JetLink Express served the Kenyan cities of Eldoret , Kisumu and Mombasa as well as various international destinations such as Bujumbura in Burundi , Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Khartoum in Sudan .
fleet
As of May 2011, the JetLink Express fleet consisted of seven aircraft:
Incidents
- On November 12, 2009 there was an accident on the RwandAir Express flight WB205 at Kigali airport with one death and five injured. The Bombardier CRJ100 with the registration number 5Y-JLD took off as scheduled from Kigali Airport in the direction of Entebbe at 12:40 p.m. local time with ten passengers and five crew members on board. Two minutes after take-off, the master requested permission to return to the airport due to technical problems with a jammed thrust lever . The plane landed safely and taxied to the gate . While the ground crew the chocks wanted to install accelerated the plane suddenly veered right and slammed into the eastern wall of about 500 meters away VIP - terminals . The resulting fire could be extinguished quickly. Eight passengers and the five crew members were taken to the hospital, and one female passenger died in the hospital. A member of the cockpit crew consisting of two pilots and a flight engineer could only be released after three hours (see also RwandAir flight 205 ) .
See also
Web links
Commons : Jetlink Express - collection of images, videos and audio files
- JetLink Express website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b JetLink Express - About Us ( Memento of the original from July 29, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) accessed on February 25, 2010
- ↑ JetLink Express - Home ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) accessed on February 25, 2010
- ↑ Airliners.de
- ↑ ch-aviation.ch - JetLink Express ( Memento of the original dated December 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English) accessed on May 16, 2011
- ↑ Accident: Jetlink Air CRJ1 at Kigali on November 12th 2009, throttle jam, impacted terminal after return. The Aviation Herald , November 14, 2009, accessed April 14, 2014.
