Private wings
| Private Wings Flugcharter GmbH | |
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| IATA code : | 8W |
| ICAO code : | PWF |
| Call sign : | PRIVATE WINGS |
| Founding: | 1991 |
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Berlin , Germany
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| Home airport : | Ingolstadt / Manching Air Base |
| Company form: | GmbH |
| Fleet size: | 11 |
| Aims: | National and international |
| Website: | www.private-wings.de |
Private Wings is a German charter airline based in Berlin and based on the Ingolstadt / Manching air base .
history
Private Wings was founded in 1991 by Peter Paul Gatz and Andreas Wagner. Over the years, the company has developed continuously as a provider of company air traffic, charter flights for business and leisure travel as well as cargo flights . The core business, however, mainly consists of shuttle flights for the automotive industry . Private Wings transports more than 100,000 passengers a year.
In the summer months, Private Wings sometimes operates scheduled flights, most of which depart from the Ingolstadt / Manching air base . In 2018 and 2019 there was a flight every Sunday via Aosta to Sardinia .
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As of August 2019, the Private Wings fleet consists of eleven aircraft:
| Aircraft type | number | ordered | Remarks | Seats |
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| Beechcraft 1900D | 1 | 19th | ||
| Dornier 328-100 | 8th | 32 | ||
| Dornier 328-300 | 2 | |||
| total | 11 | - |
Incidents
- On February 19, 1996, a Cessna 550 Citation II, aircraft registration D-CASH , crashed into a forest near Freilassing during the approach to Salzburg Airport (see main article: Crash of a Cessna 550 near Freilassing 1996 ). The investigation report revealed that the machine fell below the minimum speed required to control the aircraft and tipped over the right wing. After the impact, the wreck burned out completely. Eight passengers and two crew members were killed in the accident. The aircraft concerned was leased to Alp-Air Luftfahrt Verwaltungs-GmbH at that time. Private Wings was responsible for the crew, passengers and insurance.
- On March 19, 2001, a Beechcraft B350 Super King Air ( aircraft registration D-CINA ) was badly damaged during an inspection flight . After taking off from Berlin-Tempelhof , the machine went into a tailspin during an overrun maneuver near the Fürstenwalde radio beacon and could only just barely be saved from a crash. Both pilots were uninjured. Due to the extreme flight condition, the airframe was deformed, which led to the aircraft being taken out of service.
- On October 20, 2014 Private Wings was Dornier Do 328-100 (air vehicle registration D-CPWF ) on the private-Wings Flight 53 from Ingolstadt coming when landing in Brunswick by a tailstrike severely damaged. The 34 people on board were uninjured. The left main landing gear was bent to the side in such a way that the inner tire had no contact with the ground; Furthermore, the underside of the aircraft fuselage in the tail area was scratched and deformed over a length of approx. 1.5 meters from the hard contact with the runway . The recordings of the flight data recorder stopped when touching down hard; the last vertical acceleration recorded by it was 2.3G. The Federal Bureau of Aircraft Accident Investigation classified the incident as an aircraft accident and opened an investigation.
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ About Us. Accessed January 31, 2020 (Abkhazian).
- ↑ Summer flights to Italy: Ingolstadt gets a scheduled flight. In: aeroTELEGRAPH. March 30, 2019, accessed on March 30, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Fleet. Private Wings, accessed August 26, 2019 .
- ↑ Margarete Raabe: The Cessna fell vertically into the forest. In: The world . February 20, 1996. Retrieved August 12, 2017 .
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network , accessed on February 8, 2019.
- ^ BFU - investigation report accessed on June 5, 2014
- ↑ Simon Hradecky: Accident: Private Wings D328 at Braunschweig on Oct 20th 2014, tail strike on landing. In: The Aviation Herald . February 24, 2015, accessed February 24, 2015 .
