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EXECUTIVE

Website
  
nightexpress.de

Founded
  
1984

Operating base
  
Frankfurt Airport

Operating bases
  
Frankfurt Airport

Headquarters
  
Frankfurt, Germany

Fleet size
  
2

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Key people
  
Yvonne Boag, Managing Director

Parent organization
  
Bespoke Distribution Aviation Limited

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Nightexpress Luftverkehrsgesellschaft mbH is a small German cargo airline based at Frankfurt Airport. In 2013, the company was bought by BDA (Bespoke Distribution Aviation).

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Destinations

Nightexpress operates scheduled and chartered cargo flights out of Frankfurt Airport, most of which are either to Birmingham Airport or Coventry Airport.

Fleet

As of December 2015, the Nightexpress fleet consists of the following aircraft:

Accidents and incidents

  • On 30 June 1999 at 02:41 UTC, Nightexpress Flight 114, a Beechcraft Model 99 (registered D-IBEX) crashed near Liège Airport, Belgium, killing the two pilots on board. The aircraft had left London Luton Airport at 01:25 UTC for a cargo flight to Frankfurt Airport, when the pilots reported failures in both engines at 02:34 UTC. The aircraft was cleared to perform an emergency landing at either Brussels Airport or Liège Airport, but ultimately crashed 5 nautical miles short of the latter's runway.

    • References

    Nightexpress Wikipedia
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