West Air Sweden

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West Air Sweden
West atlantic logo.svg
IATA ICAO Callsign
- SWN AIR SWEDEN
Founded1955
HubsMalmö Airport
Focus citiesEast Midlands Airport
Fleet size38
Parent companyWest Atlantic Group
HeadquartersGothenburg, Sweden
Websitewestatlantic.eu

West Air Sweden, operating as West Atlantic, is a cargo airline based in Gothenburg, Sweden. It operates scheduled and ad hoc freight charter services for FedEx, DHL, TNT and UPS. It is also contracted to operate mail flights 6 nights a week on behalf of the Swedish post office and Royal Mail. Its main base is Malmö Airport (MMX).

History[]

Since 2011 the airline has been part of the West Atlantic Group along with British cargo airline Atlantic Airlines, both airline trade as West Atlantic with its headquarters in Sweden.[1]

Fleet[]

West Air Sweden Hawker Siddeley HS 748
West Air Sweden British Aerospace ATP

Current fleet[]

The West Air Sweden fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of August 2016):[2]

West Air Sweden Fleet
Aircraft In
Service 		Orders Notes
Boeing 737-800BCF — 4
Boeing 767-200SF 4 —
British Aerospace ATPF 33 —
Bombardier CRJ200LRF 2 —
Total 38 4

Historical fleet[]

Aircraft Note
HS 748 Operated from mid 90s to 2007
ATR 72 Operated from 2006 to 2013[3]



Accidents and Incidents[]

On 8 January 2016, West Air Sweden Flight 294, a Bombardier CRJ200 was operating a cargo flight from Oslo Airport, Gardermoen to Tromsø Airport, when it lost radar contact shortly after declaring an emergency at 23:31Z. The aircraft was later located having impacted the side of a mountain northwest of Lake Akkajaure about 10km from the border of Norway in mountainous area without road access. The flight was carrying 4.5 tons of mail and parcels.[4] Both pilots were killed in the accident.[5]

Less than one year after the accident, the Swedish Accident Investigation Authority (SHK) released the accident report[6] which identified as cause of the event, the failure of Inertial Reference Unit (IRU 1) and insufficient operational prerequisites for the management of a failure in a redundant system.

References[]

  1. ^ Baltic Air Charter Association[permanent dead link]
  2. ^ "Global Airline Guide 2016 (Part Two)". Airliner World (November 2016): 33.
  3. ^ "Historical Fleet". www.westatlantic.eu.
  4. ^ "Crash: West Atlantic Sweden CRJ2 near Akkajaure on Jan 8th 2016, lost height after emergency call". avherald.com. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  5. ^ "ASN Aircraft accident Canadair CL-600-2B19 Regional Jet CRJ-200PF SE-DUX Akkajaure". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 2016-01-08.
  6. ^ "Aviation Accidents Database - West Air Sweden flight SWN294". aviation-accidents.net. Retrieved 2016-12-07.

External links[]

Media related to West Air Sweden at Wikimedia Commons

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