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Code data

• IATA Code: KT
• ICAO Code: BHY
• Callsign: Birgenair

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History

Owned by the Turkish businessman Mehmet Birgen, Birgenair operated charter flights from Western Europe to several Turkish holiday destinations in the beginnings with aircrafts of type DC-8. Later on, it served the Turkish-German discount travel and tourism company Öger Tours for flights from Germany to Caribbean with Boeing 757 and 767 aircrafts. World map showing Europe Political map Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of Earth; the term continent here referring to a cultural and political distinction, rather than a physiographic one, thus leading to various perspectives about Europes precise borders. ... The Douglas DC-8 is a four-engined jet airliner, manufactured between 1959 and 1972. ... Central America and the Caribbean (detailed pdf map) The Caribbean (Spanish: Caribe; French: Caraïbe; Dutch: Caraïben; Portuguese: Caribe or Caraíbas) is a region of the Americas consisting of the Caribbean Sea, its islands (most of which enclose the sea), and the surrounding coasts. ... American Airlines Boeing 757 Delta Air Lines Boeing 757-232 at LAX in August 2003. ... British Airways Boeing 767-300 The Boeing 767 is a commercial passenger aircraft manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. ...

On February 6, 1996 Birgenair Flight 301 destined to Frankfurt, Germany crashed shortly after take-off from Puerto Plata Airport in the Dominican Republic into Atlantic Ocean 26 km off-shore. All 13 crew members and 176 passengers, among them 164 Germans, were killed. It was found that the air speed indicator of the Boeing 757-225 was not working properly due to the malfunction of stick shaker that led the pilots to wrong reactions. February 6 is the 37th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... Birgenair Flight 301 was a scheduled Puerto Plata-Frankfurt flight which crashed on February 6, 1996. ... For other uses, see Frankfurt (disambiguation). ... Puerto Plata Airport in Puerto Plata, Dominican Republic, is that Caribbean nations second largest airport, after Las Americas International Airport in Punta Caucedo, Dominican Republic near Santo Domingo. ...

Massive media campaigns against Birgenair and other discount flight organizers in Germany following the disaster caused a sharp decline in reservations, and finally the bankruptcy and closing of Birgenair already the same year in 1996. The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view. ...

Fleet

• 2 Boeing 737-300
• 3 Boeing 757-200 (1 destroyed)
• 1 Boeing 767-200
• 1 McDonnell Douglas DC-10

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Reference

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