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SWT

Website
  
swiftair.com

Founded
  
1986

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SWIFT

Headquarters
  
Madrid, Spain

Fleet size
  
41

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Subsidiaries
  
Mediterranean Air Freight Swiftair Bahrain

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Swiftair S.A. is an airline headquartered in Madrid, Spain. It operates scheduled and charter, passenger and cargo flights in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Its main base is Madrid–Barajas Airport.

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History

The airline was founded in 1986. It wholly owns subsidiary Mediterranean Air Freight. Currently Swiftair is also a United Nations contractor with one MD-83 based in Khartoum (Sudan) for the United Nations Mission in Sudan. Swiftair has selected the Boeing 737-300F (converted freighter) from Bedek Aviation (Israel Aerospace Industries) as the basis of its future European freighter fleet. The first aircraft was delivered in May 2007 on lease from AWAS.

Fleet

The Swiftair fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of 2 April 2016):

Incidents and accidents

  • In October 1994 one of its aircraft was written off when the crew forgot to lower the landing gear as the plane arrived in Madrid.
  • In May 1995, another aircraft was damaged beyond repair during a botched landing at Vitoria airport in Spain.
  • In July 1998 two crew were killed when a cargo aircraft crashed en route to Barcelona when the pilot lost control of the plane.
  • In January 2012 a plane sustained substantial damage during a botched landing at Kandahar.
  • On July 24, 2014 a MD83 operated by the company performed scheduled flight AH5017 from Ouagadougou to Algiers for Algerian airline Air AlgĂ©rie. The aircraft disappeared off radar 50 minutes after takeoff.
  • On January 18, 2016, an Embraer 120 freighter took out runway edge lights during its takeoff roll at Amsterdam Schiphol airport, on a flight to London Stansted. No injuries occurred.

    • References

    Swiftair Wikipedia
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