Aria Air
Aria Air (Persian هواپیمایی آریا ) is an Iranian airline based in Tehran and based on the Mehrabad International Airport.
History
The airline was founded in 2000 as Aria Air Tour by the captains Asghar Abdollahpour and Mahdi Dadpei and took the same time to its operation. Two days after the crash of Aria Air flight 1525 on 24 July 2009 the Company was deprived of his license by the Iranian air safety authority to fully investigate the accident, but has since resumed.
Destinations
Aria Air serves both national targets inside Iran as well as international connections.
Fleet
As of January 2013, the fleet of Air Aria consists of two planes:
Incidents
- On 13 November 2000, a Yakovlev of Aria Air was kidnapped.
- On July 24, 2009 at 18:10 clock has a built in 1989, but little flown Ilyushin Il -62 destroyed with the registration UP- 16208 of DETA Air on the Mashhad International Airport while landing of Aria Air Flight 1525. This testing involved 17 people including CEO Mehdi Dadpei, whose son and 13 crew members died; another 19 were injured. The cause was that the pilot the machine relatively late and too fast ( with 317 km / h instead of the permitted 250 km / h ) touched down on the 3800 meter long runway 13L. This makes the machine rolled over the end of the runway and crashed into an earth wall, the front fuselage section was destroyed about 1000 meters later. The machine was leased to the airline in May 2009, and was formerly part of the stock of inter- Flight ( mark DDR SEY).