Mack Air
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Mack Air
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Mack Air is an Air Charter airline based in Maun, Botswana. The company has been operating in northern Botswana since 1994. In 2007 it employed 15 people, including eight pilots.[1]
The company provides charter aircraft for aerial photography, tourist travel and supply flights to game lodges, medical evacuations, scenic flights.[2]
The Botswana Travel Guide says of the airline that it "maintains a good reputation as an reliable, high-quality air charter company which doesn't have ties to any of the camps."[3]
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On 6 January 2010 the company's Cessna 208 crashed and was "extensively damaged" upon takeoff from Piajo Airstrip, Chief's Island, Okavango Delta, Botswana when its engine failed. The aircraft landed on a wet flood plain and overturned. The pilot and the five passengers were all injured, including one passenger who suffered a broken hip. The pilot and four of the injured passengers were evacuated to a South African hostpital.[4][5]
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