PMTair
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| Founded | 2003 | |||
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| Ceased operations | 2008 | |||
| Hubs | Phnom Penh International Airport | |||
| Secondary hubs | Angkor International Airport | |||
| Fleet size | 6 | |||
| Destinations | 4 (at closure) | |||
| Parent company | Progress Multitrade Co., Ltd. | |||
| Headquarters | Phnom Penh, Cambodia | |||
| Website | [2] | |||
PMTair (Progress MulTi Air) was a Cambodian airline offering regularly scheduled domestic and international passenger and cargo services out of Phnom Penh International Airport.
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[edit] History
PMTair was founded on 14 January, 2003 and was owned by Progress Multitrade Co., Ltd. A certificate of airworthiness was issued by Cambodian Civil Aviation Authority on October 14, 2003.
The airline was dissolved in 2008,[1]
[edit] Destinations
Upon closure, PMTair served the following destinations[2]:
[edit] Former routes
PMTair suspended all domestic flights in the wake of the crash of PMTair Flight U4 241.
- Pattaya-Siem Reap
- Bangkok-Phnom Penh
- Hanoi-Phnom Penh
- Phnom Penh-Ratanakiri-Siem Reap
- Ratanakiri-Phnom Penh
- Siem Reap-Phnom Penh
- Siem Reap-Sihanoukville
[edit] Incidents and accidents
- November 21, 2005 – a Yunshuji Y7-100C operated by PMTair left the runway when landing at Ban Lung, Ratanakiri and sheared a leg off its landing gear. Fifty-nine passengers and six crewmembers were aboard. There were no injuries. The aircraft was XU-072, leased from Royal Phnom Penh Airways, and formerly operated by President Airlines.[3] As a result of this accident, United Nations personnel were barred from using the airline.[4]
- June 25, 2007 – PMTair Flight U4 241, an Antonov An-24 with 16 passengers and six crew crashed in a mountainous jungle area of Kampot Province. The flight had departed Angkor International Airport and was heading for Sihanoukville International Airport, and disappeared from radar at around 10:40 a.m. local time (0340 GMT). Aboard were 13 South Koreans and three Czech passengers, and the crew of one Uzbekistani pilot and five Cambodians. Because of weather and rugged terrain, search-and-rescue crews took two days to find the crash site. No survivors were found.[5][6][7]
[edit] Fleet
The PMTair fleet included the following aircraft (as of 30 August 2008) [8]:
- 2 Antonov An-12 (cargo)
- 1 Antonov An-24
- 2 Boeing 737-200
- 2 McDonnell Douglas MD-83 (one aircraft is operated for Wind Rose Aviation)
[edit] References
- ^ World Airline Directory
- ^ PMTair - Cambodian airlines: FLIGHT SCHEDULE
- ^ Accidents and Incidents, Air Safety Week, 2005-12-12 (retrieved 2007-06-25).
- ^ De Launey, Guy (2006-02-06). "Budget flights arrive in Southeast Asia", BBC News Online, retrieved 2007-06-25.
- ^ Agence France-Presse (2007-06-25). Charter plane carrying Koreans, Czechs crashes in Cambodia, Channel NewsAsia, retrieved 2007-06-25.
- ^ "'No survivors' in Cambodia plane". BBC News. 2007-06-27. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6243842.stm. Retrieved 2007-06-26.
- ^ "Memorials held for Cambodian air crash victims". Channel NewsAsia. 2007-06-28. http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/284970/1/.html. Retrieved 2007-06-28.
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[edit] External links
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