Polar Airlines

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State Unitary Enterprise "Aircompany "Polar Airlines"
ГУП «Авиакомпания «Полярные авиалинии»
IATA
PI		 ICAO
RKA		 Callsign
AIR SAKHA
Founded 1997
Operating bases Yakutsk[1]
Fleet size 56
Destinations 20
Parent company Government owned
Headquarters Yakutsk, Russia
Key people Andrei Vasiliyevich Koryakin (General Director)[1]
Website http://www.polarair.ru/
Antonov An-26-100

Polar Airlines (Polyarnye Avialinii) is an airline based in Yakutsk, Sakha Republic, Russia. It operates scheduled and charter passenger and cargo services.[2]

History

The airline began operations in 1997. It was formed from the Batagai, Kolyma-Indigirka, Chukordakh and Tiksi sub-divisions of Aeroflot.[2]

Destinations

Polar Airlines operates scheduled flights to the following destinations (as of January 2013):[3]

Russia Russia

Incidents

November 1945
Douglas C-47 CCCP-N362 force-landed near Tiksi due to fuel exhaustion, causing wing and landing gear damage; there were no casualties. The aircraft was possibly written off.[4]
December 25, 1945
A Douglas C-47 crashed on takeoff from Dudinka due to an in-flight fire, killing all 10 on board.[5] This was the only fatal accident involving the airline until 2013.
December 13, 1946
Focke-Wulf Fw 200C CCCP-N400 force-landed on the ice off Ostrov Litne due to double engine failure and problems with a third engine; all 21 on board survived, but the aircraft, operating an Igarka-Arkangelsk service, was written off.[6]
April 23, 1950
Focke-Wulf Fw 200C-4 CCCP-N500 overran the runway while landing at Yakutsk Airport in a crosswind, causing the left landing gear to collapse and damaging the left wing and both left side engines; there were no casualties, but the aircraft was written off.[7]
1954
Douglas R4D-5 CCCP-H417 crashed on landing at Polar Station SP-3, Antarctica after the landing gear struck an ice ridge and landed on its belly; the fuselage was used as a sauna and eventually sank. The aircraft was originally used by the US Navy for Operation Ski Jump, carrying out landings on drifting ice; the aircraft was abandoned after the landing gear collapsed on one of these flights and was found and repaired by the Soviets in May 1954.[8]
May 16, 2003
Antonov An-3T RA-05881 force-landed 28 mi from Sangara due to engine failure caused by bad weather; all 13 on board survived, but the aircraft was written off.[9]
November 18, 2005
Antonov An-2TP RA-02252 crashed on a mountain 19 mi from Sangar in bad weather; all 12 on board survived, but the aircraft was written off.[10]
November 21, 2012
Flight RKA-227 (performed by Antonov An-26 RA-26061) from Yakutsk to Deputatsky overshot the runway on landing by 70 metres. The airline reported an icy runway as the cause. The plane received substantial damage[11] but no injuries were reported.[12]
July 2, 2013
Flight 9949, a Mil Mi-8 (registration RA-22657) crashed into a hill top 66 km from Deputatsky in the Sakha Republic. 19 of the 25 passengers and 3 crew were killed, of these deaths several children were involved. 11 of the 25 passengers were children. A post crash fire consumed the aircraft.[13][14][15]

Fleet

As of July 2012 the Polar Airlines fleet includes:[1][16]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Air Traffic Management Corporation", Airline Reference, Vol. 1, Russian Federation, 27 April 2007, p. 351
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International. 2007-04-10. p. 64. 
  3. ↑
  4. ↑ Accident description for CCCP-N362 at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 2 July 2012.
  5. ↑ Accident description at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 2 July 2013.
  6. ↑ Accident description for CCCP-N400 at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 2 July 2013.
  7. ↑ Accident description for CCCP-N500 at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 2 July 2013.
  8. ↑ Accident description for CCCP-H417 at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 2 July 2013.
  9. ↑ Accident description for RA-05881 at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 2 July 2013.
  10. ↑ Accident description for RA-02252 at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 2 July 2013.
  11. ↑ http://www.avsim.su/forum/index.php?app=core&module=attach&section=attach&attach_rel_module=post&attach_id=397427
  12. ↑ http://avherald.com/h?article=45961174
  13. ↑ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-23142651
  14. ↑ http://www.ndtv.com/article/world/19-people-die-in-russian-helicopter-crash-official-386831
  15. ↑ "Катастрофа Ми-8Т а/к Полярные авиалинии в Усть-Янском районе Якутии" [Accident Mi-8 Yakutia] (in Russian). airdisaster.ru. Retrieved 29 October 2013. 
  16. ↑ Polar Airlines fleet

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