Nightexpress
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Founded | 1984 | ||||||
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Operating bases | Frankfurt Airport | ||||||
Fleet size | 2 | ||||||
Headquarters | Frankfurt, Germany | ||||||
Key people | Yvonne Boag, Managing Director | ||||||
Website | nightexpress.de |
Nightexpress Luftverkehrsgesellschaft mbH is a small German cargo airline based at Frankfurt Airport.[1]
Destinations
Nightexpress operates scheduled and chartered cargo flights out of Frankfurt Airport, most of which are either to Birmingham Airport or Coventry Airport.[2]
Fleet
As of December 2015, the Nightexpress fleet consists of the following aircraft:[3]
Aircraft | In Service | Notes |
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Short 360 | 2 | |
Total | 2 |
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.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 ch-aviation.com - Nightexpress retrieved 31 December 2015
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ airframes.org - Nightexpress retrieved 31 December 2015
- ↑ Nightexpress Flight 114 at the Aviation Safety Network
External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons