Partnair
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Partnair was a Norwegian charter airline company owned by Terje and Rolf Thoresen. The company remained in business from 1968 until 1989.[1] The company operated a fleet of smaller aircraft such as the Beechcraft King Air, and some larger planes such as the Convair 440 and Convair 580.
[edit] Incidents and accidents
On September 8, 1989, a Partnair Flight 394, a Convair Metropolitan chartered by a Norwegian shipping company to fly from Oslo to Hamburg crashed off the Skagerak coast in Denmark near Hirtshals, killing 55 people. Partnair went out of business shortly afterwards.
[edit] External links
- ^ Store norske leksikon, entry on "Partnair" online (subscription required) (Norwegian)
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