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| Founded | 1996 | ||||||
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| Ceased operations | 2016 | ||||||
| Fleet size | 2 | ||||||
| Website | http://airservicecomores.com/ (defunct) | ||||||
Air Service Comores was a small airline which served to transport people and cargo between the three islands of the Comoros, as well as the nearby island of Mayotte.
As of August 2006 the Air Service Comores fleet included: [1]
All but 1 L-410 are on the List of air carriers banned in the EU.
There are a number of systems of transport in the Comoros. The Comoros possesses 880 km (547 mi) of road, of which 673 km (418 mi) are paved. It has three seaports: Fomboni, Moroni and Moutsamoudou, but does not have a merchant marine, and no longer has any railway network. It has four airports, all with paved runways, one with runways over 2,438 m (7,999 ft) long, with the others having runways shorter than 1,523 m (4,997 ft).
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Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was a scheduled flight serving the route Addis Ababa–Nairobi–Brazzaville–Lagos–Abidjan. On 23 November 1996, the aircraft serving the flight, a Boeing 767-200ER, was hijacked en route from Addis Ababa to Nairobi by three Ethiopians seeking asylum in Australia. The plane crash-landed in the Indian Ocean near Grande Comore, Comoros Islands due to fuel exhaustion; 125 of the 175 passengers and crew on board, including the three hijackers, died. This is the first recorded instance of a partially successful water landing utilizing a wide-body aircraft, the first successful landing being Pan Am Flight 6 in 1956, in which all passengers on board survived, although the plane used was a Boeing 377 Stratocruiser, which is not a wide-body aircraft.
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