Sudan Airways

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sudan Airways
الخطوط الجوية السودانية
Sudan Airways logo
Airbus A300-600 of Sudan Airways
IATA code : SD
ICAO code : SOUTH
Call sign : SUDANAIR
Founding: 1947
Seat: Khartoum , SudanSudanSudan 
Turnstile :

Khartoum airport

Home airport : Khartoum airport
IATA prefix code : 200
Management: Abd Elmahmoud Suleiman Mohammed ( CEO )
Fleet size: 6th
Aims: National and international
Website: www.sudanair.com

Sudan Airways ( Arabic الخطوط الجوية السودانية al-Chuṭūṭ al-dschauwiyya as-Sūdāniyya ) is the national airline of Sudan based in Khartoum and based at Khartoum airport . She is a member of the Arab Air Carriers Organization .

history

Sudan Airways was founded in 1947 by the Sudan Railways railway company to serve parts of the country with no rail link. The fleet initially consisted of four De Havilland DH.104 Dove . In 1952 the airline procured its first Douglas DC-3 and expanded to seven aircraft. These were used in traffic to Aden , Asmara , Beirut , Cairo and Jeddah . 1959 the Vickers Viscount was used to fly to destinations in Europe. In 1962, two De Havilland DH.106 Comets replaced the Viscount and in 1967 the Fokker F-27s replaced the DC-3. Gradually, the fleet was modernized with the Boeing 707 , Boeing 737 , Airbus A310 and Fokker 50 .

The civil war in South Sudan, which lasted until 2005, weighed heavily on society. Not all parts of the country could be served. To make matters worse, the UN embargo against the country, as a result of which the routes to Europe had to be suspended.

In June 2007 the Sudanese government reduced its stake in the company to 30 percent. The majority owner is now the Kuwaiti investment group Aref with 49 percent. Another 21 percent belong to the private Sudanese company al-Fiha. On June 21, 2008, the Sudan Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) revoked Sudan Airways' Air Operator's Certificate for one month.

Like all Sudanese airlines, Sudan Airways is on the list of operating bans for the airspace of the European Union .

fleet

Airbus A320-200 of Sudan Airways

Current fleet

As of March 2020, the Sudan Airways fleet consists of six aircraft with an average age of 25.1 years:

De Havilland Comet 4C of Sudan Airways
Aircraft type active ordered Remarks
Airbus A300-600 1 only of 21 active A300 passenger planes worldwide that is not operated by an Iranian airline
Airbus A320-200 2 one operated by East Air
Boeing 737-300 1
Fokker 50 2 both inactive
total 6th -

Former aircraft types

Yak-42 of Sudan Airways

Sudan Airways previously also operated the following types of aircraft:

Incidents

The Douglas DC-3 ST-AAM crashed on February 21, 1967 near Khartoum
A plane identical to the Boeing 707 that crashed on September 10, 1982
The Boeing 737-200 ST-AFK which crashed on July 8, 2003 near Port Sudan

Sudan Airways had fifteen total casualties from 1967 to 2016, seven of them with a total of 228 fatalities.

  • On February 21, 1967, a Douglas DC-3 / C-47B-DK ( aircraft registration ST-AAM ) collided on a local training flight at Khartoum Airport during a simulated engine failure with a house and crashed into a cemetery wall. One of the two pilots on board was killed.
  • On December 6, 1971, the pilots of a Fokker F27-200 Friendship ( ST-AAY ) could not receive any radio beacons on the flight from Khartoum and therefore could not find Malakal Airport (today South Sudan). When the engines failed due to lack of fuel, the crash landed in trees near Kapoeta , 560 km south-southeast of the destination airport. Of the 42 inmates, 10 were killed, including the Canadian captain.
  • On September 10, 1982, a Boeing 707 ( ST-AIM ) landed on the approach to Khartoum in the River Nile, about five kilometers from the runway. The machine came on a transfer flight from Jeddah Airport (old) . All eleven inmates survived the unplanned splashdown; however, the aircraft was a total write-off.
  • On July 8, 2003, a Boeing 737-200 ( ST-AFK ) returned after taking off from Port Sudan Airport due to an engine failure. As the runway could not be seen on approach due to the blown sand, the aircraft took off . This resulted in a loss of control, the machine hit about 5 kilometers east of the airport and broke. Only one child survived; 116 people died (see also Sudan Airways flight 139 ) .
  • On June 10, 2008, an Airbus A310-324 ( ST-ATN ) with 203 passengers and 11 crew members on board rolled over the end of the runway by a good 200 m when landing at Khartoum airport. The machine was damaged and caught fire on the right side. The pilots had received incorrect wind information from the tower and were actually approaching with a tailwind of almost 30 km / h. In addition, an engine's reverse thrust mechanism had been defective for some time . Ultimately, the airport fire brigade did not respond quickly, appropriately or in an orderly manner, as there was an acute shortage of staff and the fire engines had no radio link whatsoever. The fire then also hit the fuselage area, and the machine burned out completely. The death toll was 30 people; 184 people were able to escape the fire.

See also

Web links

Commons : Sudan Airways  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sudan Tribune - Sudan part-privatized national carrier in $ 175 mln deal, June 14, 2007
  2. ↑ European Commission - List of airlines that are prohibited from operating in the EU, accessed on October 12, 2015
  3. ^ Sudan Airways Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Retrieved March 11, 2020 .
  4. ↑ https://www.planespotters.net/operators/Airbus/A300
  5. ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Zurich Airport 1967 to 2007.
  6. ^ Ulrich Klee, Frank Bucher et al .: jp airline-fleets international . Sutton, UK, 2008 to 2013.
  7. ↑ Sudan Airways accident statistics , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on June 22, 2016.
  8. ^ Accident report DC-3 ST-AAM , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 14, 2019.
  9. ^ Accident report F-27-200 ST-AAY , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on June 22, 2016.
  10. ^ Accident report DHC-6 ST-ADB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on June 23, 2016.
  11. ^ Accident report B-707 ST-AIM , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on June 23, 2016.
  12. ↑ accident report F-27-400 ST-ADY , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 22 June 2016th
  13. ^ Accident report B-737-200 ST-AFK , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on June 22, 2016.
  14. ^ Accident report A310 ST-ATN , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on June 21, 2016.