Air West

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For the Sudanese airline with a similar name see Air West Express

For the USA airline with a similar name see Hughes Airwest

Air West, Co is an airline based in Khartoum, Sudan. It operates domestic passenger services and international cargo charters. Its main base is Khartoum International Airport (KRT), with a hub at Sharjah International Airport (SHJ). This airline has no connection to Hughes Airwest.

1 Code Data
2 History
3 Incidents and accidents
4 Fleet
5 Blacklist
6 External links

[edit] Code Data

ICAO Code: AWZ

[edit] History

The airline was established in April 1992 and started operations in October 1992. It is owned by Saif Omer (90%), Chairman and President of the airline, and Housam Saif (10%).

[edit] Incidents and accidents

On February 3, 2005, an Air West Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft, owned by East-West Airlines based in Sharjah, left Sharjah with 46 tons of humanitarian cargo for Nyala, Darfur province in Sudan, with a planned en-route stop at Khartoum. When the crew first contacted Khartoum they advised air traffic control that they had fuel problems. The crew were advised to make an emergency landing at Aad Babaker, which is about 15 km west of Khartoum. The aircraft crashed about 15km from Khartoum killing all seven crew (ref: Flight International, July 2005).

[edit] Fleet

The Air West fleet consists of the following aircraft (at January 2005):

2 Antonov An-12
2 Antonov An-26

[edit] Blacklist

The entire Air West fleet, with the exception of one aircraft (an Ilyushin Il-76 with the registration mark ST-EWX), is on the List of air carriers banned in the EU (July 2006).