The Norwegian Accident Investigation Board Norway (AIBN) has published the final report into the crash of Atlantic Airways BAe 146-200 OY-CRG (msn E2075) on 10 October 2006. OY-CRG was destroyed in a fire after over-running the runway at Stord, Norway, with four fatalities among the twelve passengers and four crewmembers […]
Part of the fuselage of former Nex Aviation BAe 146-200 G-TBIC (msn E2025) is being used in a piece of visual art at the Tatton Park Biennial 2012, outside Manchester. The project, ‘Gleaners of the Infocalypse’, was commissioned especially for the Biennial from artists Philip Duckworth and Ben Sadler, who […]
North Cariboo Air began operations with BAe 146-200 C-GRNT (msn E2140) on 27 April. The inaugural flight departed Calgary and then stopped at Edmonton, Fort St. John, and Fort Nelson, before retracing her steps back to Calgary. She carried 82 passengers on the northbound leg, and 72 on the southbound […]
Korongo Airlines finally operated its long-delayed first service, from Lubumbashi to Kinshasa, on 16 April. That service was operated by the airline’s Boeing 737-300, as was its first international flight, to Johannesburg, two days later. Korongo’s BAe 146-200, OO-MJE (msn E2192), has a light schedule at present, with a single […]
Ghanaian airline Starbow has leased BAe 146-300 ZS-SMO (msn E3169) from South Africa’s Fair Aviation. ZS-SMO arrived in Accra in mid-April, with Starbow’s titles and logo applied on top of Fair Aviation’s colors. She will help cover for scheduled maintenance to Starbow’s first two 146s. The airline was to have […]
Lufthansa has postponed to next year a decision on whether to exercise its option of buying the balance of Brussels Airlines. The german airline acquired a 45 percent stake in the Belgian airline in 2008, and has an option to acquire the balance of the shares, which it can exercise […]
Philippine airline SkyJet began flying between Manila and Basco, in Batanes Province, in early April. Lionair is operating BAe 146-200 RP-C5525 (msn E2031) on SkyJet’s behalf. The flights are chartered to the Batanes Cultural Travel Agency (BCTA), as the airline has not been able to secure a permit to operate […]
The second former TNT Airways BAe 146QC has been painted in Royal Air Force colors. Series 200QC OO-TAZ (msn E2188) flew her last service for TNT Airways on 3 April. Two days later, she was ferried to Norwich, where she received into the RAF’s overall grey colors. She then departed […]
Taban Air‘s leased BAe 146-300, LZ-HBD (msn E3141), returned to Bulgaria in early April, being noted parked on Bulgaria Air‘s ramp at Sofia on 16 April. She had been flying for the Iranian airline since November 2006, initially on lease from Bulgaria Air’s predecessor, Hemus Air. Her return brings Taban […]
Malmö Aviation‘s Avro RJ100 SE-DSU (msn E3248) is no longer in the special color scheme she first took on to support the Swedish national football team in the 2006 Football World Cup. She was flown to Eindhoven for repainting on 2 April, returning to Malmö Sturup on 9 April in […]
