Tristar Air

Tristar Air
IATA code :
ICAO code :	TSY
Call sign :	TRIPLE STAR
Founding:	1998
Operation stopped:	2015
Seat:	Egypt
Home airport :	Cairo
Fleet size:	0
Aims:	international
Website:	www.tristarair.com.eg
Tristar Air ceased operations in 2015. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation.

Tristar Air was an Egyptian cargo airline that was founded in 1998 and ceased operations after the incident in October 2015.

Destinations

Until the incident in October 2015, the company transported freight between Europe and Africa.

fleet

Until the incident, Tristar Air only operated the one 35-year-old Airbus A300B4-200F .

Incidents

On October 12, 2015, the safety landing of a 35-year-old Tristar Air Airbus A300B4-200F failed on a road 22 kilometers northwest of Mogadishu airport after several unsuccessful attempts to land at the unlit airport. The machine was traveling with cargo from the African Union Mission in Somalia from Ostend via Cairo to Mogadishu . The crew survived the incident, but Tristar Air's only aircraft had to be written off.

See also

• Former Airlines List (Africa)

Web links

Commons : Tristar Air  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Tristar Air website (English)
• Photos of Tristar Air on Airliners.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Airlines Egypt (English), accessed on July 28, 2016
2. ↑ ^{a b} Ch-aviation : Egypt's Tristar Air loses only aircraft in Somali crash (English), accessed on October 14, 2015
3. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)