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MSC

Parent company
  
Aeroflot

Founded
  
1991

MSC
  
Air Moscow

Headquarters
  
Moscow

Ceased operations
  
1996

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Operating bases
  
Sheremetyevo International Airport

Operating base
  
Sheremetyevo International Airport

Moscow Airways was a Russian airline that was formed as a subsidiary of Aeroflot to operate the airline's fleet of Ilyushin Il-62s.

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History

It began operating in 1991, flying passengers and airfreight. Among the airline's destinations by 1993 were Sharjah (United Arab Emirates) and Jeddah (Saudi Arabia), from where Moscow Airways ferried home South African Muslims returning from pilgrimage.

Moscow Airways operated, from 1993 to 1996, an Ilyushin Il-76TD (tail number RA-76498) that was built in 1982, and also flew a Tupolev Tu-154M (RA-85681) that carried passengers on charter flights from Sheremetyevo International Airport; both aircraft previously belonged to Aeroflot. In 1993, the airline ordered fifty Beriev Be-32Ps.

The airline ceased operations in 1996 after the fatal accident in Africa which killed approximately 300 people.

Accidents and incidents

  • On 8 January 1996, an Air Africa Antonov An-32 aircraft (RA-26222) which had been wet-leased by Moscow Airways to Scibe Airlift crashed into a market shortly after taking off from N'Dolo Airport in Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, killing approximately 300 people. At the time, the Russian Ministry of Transport had "suspended or withdrawn" Moscow Airways' air operator's license.
  • References

    Moscow Airways Wikipedia