CEM Air

"CEM Air" is an air leasing company based at Lanseria Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa.Infobox Airline
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focus_cities = Johannesburg
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headquarters = Johannesburg
key_people = Chief pilot MJ Booysen
Chief maintainer Wynand Kleingeld
website = http://www.cemair.co.za

Fleet

CEM leases Cessna Grand Caravan, Cessna 404 Titan Ambassador, Beechcraft 1900C and 1900D aircraft, all but the Titan using Pratt and Whitney PT6A turboprop engines.

Accidents and incidents

*On 1 September 2008 an Air Serv leased nineteen passenger Beechcraft 1900C crashed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, about 15 km northwest of Bukavu [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7593405.stm "'No survivors' in DR Congo crash"] "BBC News" 2 September 2008] [Joe Bavier [http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSL266824920080902?sp=true "Aid plane crashes in Congo, no sign of survivors"] "Reuters" 2 September 2008] carrying two crew and fifteen passengers. [ [http://www.airserv.org/main.cfm?action=newsroom&sub=article&art=50 Air Serv press release] ] [ [http://www.avionews.com/index.php?corpo=see_news_home.php&news_id=1093785&pagina_chiamante=corpo%3Dindex.php Avionews] ] [ [http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=27892&Cr=democratic&Cr1=congo "Aid plane with 17 on board crashes in eastern DR Congo"] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 2 September 2008] [ [http://www.un.org/apps/newsFr/storyF.asp?NewsID=17199&Cr=RDC&Cr1=OCHA "RDC: Un avion humanitaire de l'ONU avec 17 personnes à bord s'écrase dans l'est"] (in French) United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 2 September 2008] The aircraft, wet leased and flown by crew from [http://www.cemair.co.za/ CEM Air] , based at Lanseria Airport, Johannesburg South Africa, was arriving at Bukavu following technical service at N'Dolo Airport, Kinshasa. [ [http://www.radiookapi.net/index.php?i=53&a=20151 "Crash d’avion près de Bukavu, 17 morts"] (in French) Radio Okapi, 2 September 2008] The aircraft was under the command of 24-year-old Rudi Knoetze of Johannesburg when it crashed into a mountainous ridge. [ [http://www.news24.com/News24/South_Africa/News/0,,2-7-1442_2386836,00.html "SA pilot killed in DRC crash"] "News 24" 2 September 2008] Passengers included twelve Congolese, one French, one Indian, and one Canadian. [ [http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jkYN3vME5I3fy54kQQH9F-teBpxA "Crash au Kivu: les secours n'ont pas encore pu atteindre l'épave, selon l'ONU"] (in French) 3 September 2008]

*On 2 May 2008 another CEM Air Beechcraft 1900, registered in Kenya flying from Wau to Juba, Sudan crashed near Rumbek killing all nineteen passengers and two crew. Among the passengers were two senior officials of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army and their wives. [ [http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article26976 "South Sudan declares three-day mourning for crash victims"] "Sudan Tribune" 3 May 2008]

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