Scibe Airlift

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airline = Scibe Aviation

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ICAO = SBZ
callsign = SCIBE AIRLIFT
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headquarters = Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo
key_people = Bemba Saolano [http://www.iss.co.za/Pubs/BOOKS/Angola/15Peleman.pdf The logistics of sanctions busting: the airborne component, Johan Peleman, page 303] ]
hubs = Kinshasa International Airport
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Scibe Airlift is an airline based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (former Zaire). Its operates from N'Dolo Airport, Kinshasacite news | title= Directory: World Airlines | work= Flight International | pages= 58-59 | date= 2007-03-27] .

The airline is on the List of air carriers banned in the European Union, as are all airlines regulated by the authorities in the DRC..

Accidents and incidents

*On 13 December 1992 a Fokker F-27-400M operated by Scibe Airlift Cargo crashed with 37 fatalities about 10 km (6.3 mls) from Goma
*On 18 January 1994 a Learjet 24D operated by Scibe Airlift Cargo ran out of fuel and crashed on approach on a repositioning flight from Cotonou Airport (COO/DBBB), Benin to Kinshasa-N'Djili Airport] (FIH/FZAA) killing two crew. ["Flight International", 18-24 January 1994, page 38]
*The 1996 Air Africa crash killed an estimated 297, mostly on the ground. It was a lease from Scibe. ["Le Crash d’un Avian cargo sur un marche au Zaïre fait pres de 250 morts", "Le Monde", 10 January 1996.]

References

Further reading

*J Rupert, "Zaïre reportedly selling arms to Angolan ex-rebels", "The Washington Post", 21 March 1997.
* [http://zeus.zeit.de/text/1996/05/Chaos_am_Himmel_ueber_Afrika "Chaos am Himmel ueber Afrika", "Die Zeit", May 1996. de icon]