Itek Air

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Itek Air Boeing 737-200, Moscow, 2008, which was crashed at 24 August 2008.

Itek Air, Ltd (Template:Langx) was an airline based in Bishkek (Manas International Airport) in Kyrgyzstan.

Destinations

As of October 2008, Itek Air operated scheduled passenger flights to the following destinations:<ref>Template:In lang Polyot-Sirena Flight schedule</ref><ref>Template:In lang Itek Air website Расписание рейсов Template:Webarchive</ref>

People's Republic of China
Kyrgyzstan
Russia

The airline is banned from flying within the European Union.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Accidents and incidents

Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 6895

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  • On 24 August 2008, a Boeing 737-200, owned and operated by Itek Air (a Kyrgyz company) on a charter flight for Iran Aseman Airlines, flight 6895, crashed near Manas International Airport in Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan, while attempting an emergency landing, returning to the airport of origin, 10 minutes after departure. Sixty-eight people were killed and 22 people survived the crash.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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Fleet

The fleet consisted of the following aircraft:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

The registration of the aircraft were EX-127, EX-311 and EX-009. The last one crashed near Bishkek on 24 August 2008.

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