PMTair

PMTair (Progress MulTi Air) was a Cambodian airline offering regularly scheduled domestic and international passenger and cargo services out of Phnom Penh International Airport.

1 History
2 Destinations
- 2.1 Former routes
3 Incidents and accidents
4 Fleet
5 References
6 External links

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]

Destinations

Upon closure, PMTair served the following destinations^[2]:

Cambodia
- Siem Reap - Angkor International Airport base
Korea, South
- Busan - Gimhae International Airport
- Seoul - Incheon International Airport
Vietnam
- Hanoi - Noi Bai International Airport

Former routes

PMTair suspended all domestic flights in the wake of the crash of PMTair Flight U4 241.

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]

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)

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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External links

Airlines of Cambodia

Current	Cambodia Angkor Air · TonleSap Airlines

Defunct	Air Dream · Angkor Airways · Cambodia Airlines · First Cambodia Airlines · Kampuchea Airlines · Mekong Airlines · PMTair · President Airlines · Royal Air Cambodge · Royal Khmer Airlines · Royal Phnom Penh Airways · Siem Reap Airways