Partnair
| Partnair | |
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| IATA code : | PD |
| ICAO code : | PAR |
| Call sign : | Partnair |
| Founding: | 1968 |
| Operation stopped: | 1989 |
| Seat: |
Oslo , Norway
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| Home airport : | Oslo Airport Fornebu |
| Fleet size: | 8th |
| Aims: | Charter flights in Europe |
| Partnair ceased operations in 1989. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Partnair was a Norwegian charter airline that existed from 1968 to 1989. The owners, the brothers Terje and Rolf Thoresen, founded the company in the spring of 1968 as a charter airline for mainly domestic Scandinavian flights; it was disbanded after an aircraft accident in 1989. The airline was based at Oslo Airport Oslo-Fornebu . In its last full business year, 1988, the company operated a fleet of three Convair 580s and six Super King Air 200s .
Incidents
- On September 8, 1989, a Partnair Convair CV-580 ( aircraft registration number LN-PAA ) crashed on the flight from Oslo to Hamburg . All 55 people on board (50 passengers and 5 crew members) were killed. The plane was from the Wilh shipping company . Wilhelmsen and was supposed to bring employees of the shipping company to Hamburg for a ship christening. The machine crashed into the Skagerrak near the municipality of Hirtshals off the Danish coast ; it was the most momentous accident involving a CV-580. Subsequent investigations of the wreck came to the conclusion that counterfeit, non-approved spare parts with insufficient strength limits led to the crash (see Partnair flight 394 ) .
See also
Web links
Commons : Partnair - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ "World Airline Directory." Flight International . March 26, 1988. 102 .
- ↑ Gregersen, M .; Jensen, S. & Knudson, PJ (1995): The crash of the Partnair Convair 340/580 in the Skagerrak: identification of the deceased. Aviat. Space Environ. Med. 66 : 158-163.
- ^ Accident report CV-580 LN-PAA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 8, 2017.
