Vnukovo Airlines
| Vnukovo Airlines | |
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| IATA code : | V5 |
| ICAO code : | VKO |
| Call sign : | VNUKOVO |
| Founding: | 1993 |
| Operation stopped: | 2001 |
| Seat: |
Moscow , Russia
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| Home airport : | Moscow Vnukovo Airport |
| Fleet size: | |
| Aims: | Balkans, Asia |
| Vnukovo Airlines ceased operations in 2001. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Vnukovo Airlines ( Russian Внуковские авиалинии , Vnukowskije awialinii ) was a Russian airline.
history
In 1991 the state-owned airline Aeroflot was restructured and its regional departments were gradually made independent. In March 1993, Vnukovo Airlines emerged from the division based at Moscow-Vnukowo Airport . In 1993 the company took over Aeroflot's stakes in the Turkish charter airline Greenair . In 2001 Vnukovo Airlines was taken over by Siberian Airlines .
fleet
Vnukovo Airlines operated Tupolev Tu-204 aircraft ; Boeing 737-400 ; Tupolev Tu-154 ; Jakowlew Jak-42 as well as several wide-body aircraft of the type Ilyushin Il-86 .
Incidents
- On August 29, 1996, a Russian Tupolev Tu-154M (registration number RA-85621 ) flew into a hill while approaching Longyearbyen Airport ( Spitsbergen ). The Vnukovo Airlines plane was en route from Moscow to Longyearbyen and had Ukrainian miners on board. At a height of around 900 m, the machine hit the Operafjellet (German: Operberg) 14 km from the airport. All 141 inmates were killed. The reasons for the accident were, among other things, confusion in the cockpit, deviations from several regulations and poor English skills of the flight crew.
- On March 15, 2001, a Tu-154 operated by Vnukovo Airlines was hijacked by three Chechens on a flight from Istanbul to Moscow. They demanded to be taken to Saudi Arabia, where they released 47 hostages - mostly women, children and a flight attendant who was seriously injured by a knife attack by the kidnappers at the beginning of the kidnapping. In Medina, the plane was stormed the next day after the hijackers demanded refueling and threatened to blow up the plane. After the events, she was given the name of the flight attendant Yulia Fomina, who later died of her injuries.
See also
Web links
Commons : Vnukovo Airlines - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Accident report TU-154 RA-85621 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 1, 2016.
- ↑ kidnapping report RA-85619 in the Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 1, 2016