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South African airline (2002–09)

Aerolift

IATA	ICAO	Call sign
-	-	-

Founded

2002

Ceased operations

2009

Headquarters

Johannesburg, South Africa

Website

http://www.aerolift.org/ (defunct)

Aerolift was a South Africanairline based inBryanston, Gauteng,Johannesburg, operating chartered passenger and cargo flights withinAfrica usingSoviet-built aircraft. Aerolift also offeredaircraft lease services. The airline was launched in 2002 and shut down in 2009 following two fatal accidents that had occurred in the same year.^[1]^[2]

Fleet

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Upon closure, the Aerolift fleet included the following aircraft:^[2]

Accidents and incidents

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On 20 February 2009, an AeroliftAntonov An-12 crashed upon take-off atLuxor International Airport, Egypt due to an engine fire, killing all five crew members on board.^[3]
On March 9, 2009 AeroliftIlyushin Il-76 S9-SAB crashed intoLake Victoria just after takeoff fromEntebbe Airport, Uganda, killing all 11 people on board. Two of the engines had caught fire on take-off. The aircraft had been chartered by DynCorp on behalf ofAMISOM. The accident was investigated by Uganda's Ministry of Transport, which concluded that all four engines were time-expired and that Aerolift's claim that maintenance had been performed which extended their service live and that the work had been certified could not be substantiated.^[4]

References

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^Aerolift at airlineupdate.com Archived 2010-09-16 at theWayback Machine
^^a ^b"Directory: World Airlines".Flight International. 27 March 2007. p. 48.
^"Five dead in Ukrainian plane fire at Luxor airport - Summary". The Earth Times. Archived fromthe original on 29 November 2020. Retrieved20 February 2009.
^Hradecky, Simon."Crash: Aerolift IL76 at Entebbe on Mar 9th 2009, impacted Lake Victoria after takeoff". The Aviation Herald. Retrieved27 December 2010.

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