BAL Bashkirian Airlines
{{Short description|Flight company}}
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{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}}
{{Infobox Airline
| airline = BAL Bashkirian Airlines
| image = File:Bashkirian-airlines.jpg
| image_size =
| IATA = V9
| ICAO = BTC
| callsign = BASHKIRIAN
| founded = 1991
| commenced =
| ceased = April 2007
| hubs = Ufa International Airport
| secondary_hubs =
| frequent_flyer = BAL+
| alliance =
| subsidiaries =
| fleet_size = 21
| destinations = 19
| parent =
| headquarters = Ufa International Airport, Ufa, Russia
| key_people =
| num_employees = 1,513 (2007)
| website = {{url|https://web.archive.org/*/https://bal.ufanet.ru|bal.ufanet.ru}}
}}
BAL – Bashkirian Airlines ({{langx|ru|«Башкирские авиалинии»}}, {{langx|ba|БАЛ Башҡортостан авиалиниялары|BAL Bashqortostan Avialiniyaları}}) was an airline which operated at its head office at Ufa International Airport in Ufa, Russia.[https://web.archive.org/web/20071008234822/http://www.lgkonstanz.de/servlet/PB/show/1201157/urteil_im_flugzeugunglueck_ueberlingen.pdf Bashkirian Airlines v. Federal Republic of Germany] {{in lang|de}}. District Court of Kostanz. Retrieved on September 11, 2011. "BASHKIRIAN AIRLINES
vertreten durch d. Generaldirektoren Flughafen d. Stadt UFA, Russische Föderation, 450056 Russland-UFA" It operated regional and trunk routes from Ufa and charter services to Europe, Asia and North Africa. The company was founded in 1991 and liquidated in 2007.[https://asn.flightsafety.org/database/operators/4444 Information about Bashkirskie Avialinii at the Aviation Safety Network]
History
The airline was founded in 1991, originally set up as an Aeroflot division and was formerly part of the Samara-based Aerovolga.Klee, Ulrich & Bucher, Frank u. a.: jp airline-fleets international 2005/06. Zürich-Airport 2005, S. 542. It began to make permanent domestic, foreign connections and charter flights to Cairo, Tunis and Barcelona.
In October 2006, the airline lost its air operator's certificate after intense security renovations with the Ministry of Transport.Airliner World, February 2007 In April 2007, Bashkirian Airlines filed for bankruptcy and ceased operations.{{cite web|url=https://www.ch-aviation.com/portal/news/4332-bal-bashkirian-airlines-news-update|title=BAL – Bashkirian Airlines News Update|website=Ch-aviation.com|access-date=May 5, 2007}} It had 1,513 employees at the time of its dissolution.
Destinations
File:BAL Antonov An-24 Goetting-1.jpg parked at Ufa International Airport in 1994]]
As of January 2005, Bashkirian Airlines operated the following services:{{Citation needed|date=June 2007}}
Fleet
File:BAL Tupolev Tu-154M Hut-1.jpg at Surgut International Airport in 2005]]
The Bashkirian Airlines fleet consisted of the following aircraft:{{cite web|url=https://rzjets.net/operators/?show=1494|title=Bashkirskie Avialinii|website=Rzjets.net}}
| class="wikitable" style="margin:0.5em auto; text-align:center"
|+ Bashkirian Airlines fleet |
| Aircraft
!Total !Introduced !Retired !Notes |
|---|
| Antonov An-2TP
|1 |1992 |1999 | |
| Antonov An-24B
|6 |1993 |2001 | |
| Antonov An-24RV
|4 |1994 |2001 | |
| Antonov An-28
|6 |1992 |1997 | |
| Antonov An-74
|5 |1997 |2005 | |
| Mil Mi-8T{{cite web|url=https://www.flickriver.com/photos/ghbhd/50846569262/|title=Bashkirian Airlines Mi-8}}
|1 |{{unknown}} |{{unknown}} | |
| Mil Mi-34{{cite web|url=https://www.jetphotos.com/photo/5820960|title=Bashkirian Airlines Mi-34|website=Jetphotos net.|access-date=September 22, 2006}}
|1 |{{unknown}} |{{unknown}} | |
| Tupolev Tu-134A
|10 |1993 |2005 | |
| Tupolev Tu-154B
|10 |rowspan=2|1994 |rowspan=2|2007 | |
| Tupolev Tu-154M
|13 |One crashed as Flight 2937 |
Accidents and incidents
{{Main|2002 Überlingen mid-air collision}}
File:Компьютерная реконструкция столкновения самолётов над Боденским озером.png
File:Bashkirskie Avialinii RA-85816 Tupolev TU-154M.jpg
- 2002 Überlingen mid-air collision: On July 1, 2002, Bashkirian Airlines Flight 2937, a Tupolev Tu-154M (registered as RA-85816) was on a charter flight from Moscow, Russia to Barcelona, Spain. The plane was flying over southern Germany when it collided with a DHL International Boeing 757-200PF, flying from Bergamo, Italy, to Brussels, Belgium, over the city of Überlingen near the German-Swiss border. The DHL plane’s tail slammed into the fuselage of the Tupolev Tu-154. The collision killed the 2 crew members on board the Boeing 757, and all 69 passengers and crew on the Tupolev, mostly Russian schoolchildren from Bashkortostan on a vacation, organized by the local UNESCO committee, to the Costa Dorada region of Spain.{{cite web|url=https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/323026|title=Accident description|publisher=Aviation Safety Network|access-date=April 30, 2021}}
See also
References
{{Reflist}}
External links
{{Commons category|BAL Bashkir Airlines}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bal.ufanet.ru/eng/index.html bal.ufanet.ru] (Archive, 1999–2001)
- [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.aircompanybal.ru/ aircompanybal.ru] (Archive) {{in lang|ru}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.bal.ufanet.ru bal.ufanet.ru] (Archive) {{in lang|ru}}
- "[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/2082146.stm Russian airline's 'good safety record']," BBC
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Category:Defunct airlines of Russia
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Category:Companies based in Ufa
Category:Former Aeroflot divisions