Uganda Airlines
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Uganda Airlines is a defunct Ugandan flag carrier. Uganda Airlines Corporation went out of business in May 2001.
On October 1988, the company's Boeing 707 crashed near Rome, killing 31 of the 52 people aboard. The plane was Uganda Airlines' only one fitted with a "hush kit" to reduce noise to European standards. Uganda Airlines resumed service with a leased aircraft with flights to the Middle East and Nairobi, but these flights were canceled in late 1989. Domestic routes, too, had been reduced to those between Entebbe Airport and the airfields at Arua and Kasese.
Several local, regional and international firms expressed an interest in taking over Uganda Airlines upon privatisation, but later pulled out, leaving only South African Airways (SAA), which also backed out.
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- "Uganda Airliner Crash In Italy Leaves 31 Dead", The New York Times, October 18, 1988
- "Emirates Cancels Pact With Uganda Airlines", The East African, March 26, 2001
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