PMTair(Progress MulTi Air) was aCambodianairline offering regularly scheduled domestic and international passenger and cargo services out ofPhnom Penh International Airport.
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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 | 7 | ||||||
| Destinations | 4 (at closure) | ||||||
| Parent company | Progress Multitrade Co., Ltd. | ||||||
| Headquarters | Phnom Penh,Cambodia | ||||||
| Website | pmtair | ||||||
History
editPMTair was founded on 14 January 2003 and was owned by Progress Multitrade Co., Ltd. A certificate of airworthiness was issued by the Cambodian Civil Aviation Authority on October 14, 2003.
The airline was dissolved in 2008.[1]
Destinations
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Upon closure, PMTair served the following destinations:[2]
Former routes
editPMTair suspended all domestic flights in the wake of the crash ofPMTair 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
Fleet
editThe PMTair fleet included the following aircraft (as of 30 August 2008):[3]
- 2Antonov An-12(cargo)
- 1Antonov An-24
- 2Boeing 737-200
- 2McDonnell Douglas MD-83(one aircraft is operated forWind Rose Aviation)
Accidents and incidents
edit- On November 21, 2005, aYunshuji Y7-100Coperated by PMTair left the runway when landing at Ban Lung,Ratanakiriand sheared a leg off its landing gear. Fifty-nine passengers and six crew members were aboard. There were no injuries. The aircraft was XU-072, leased fromRoyal Phnom Penh Airways,and formerly operated byPresident Airlines.[4]As a result of this accident,United Nationspersonnel were barred from using the airline.[5]
- On June 25, 2007,PMTair Flight U4 241,anAntonov An-24with 16 passengers and six crew crashed in a mountainous jungle area ofKampot Province.The flight had departedAngkor International Airportand was heading forSihanoukville International Airport,and disappeared from radar at around 10:40 a.m. local time (0340UTC). 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.[6][7][8]
References
edit- ^"Complete Listing of Airlines in Cambodia".AirlineUpdate.Archived fromthe originalon July 23, 2012.
- ^"Cambodian airlines: Flight schedule".pmtair.Archived fromthe originalon May 14, 2008.
- ^"CH-Aviation - Airline News, Fleet Lists & More".CH-Aviation.Archived fromthe originalon 2012-02-10.Retrieved2008-01-18.
- ^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.Retrieved2007-06-26.
- ^"Memorials held for Cambodian air crash victims".Channel NewsAsia. 2007-06-28. Archived fromthe originalon 2007-06-30.Retrieved2007-06-28.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related toPMTair.
- Official Website(Archive)
- PMTair Fleet
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