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Itek Air

Airline

Itek Air

IATA	ICAO	Callsign
GI	IKA	SMART ITEK

Founded

1999

Ceased operations

2010

Hubs

Manas International Airport

Fleet size

Destinations

Headquarters

Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Itek Air, Ltd (Russian: ООО Авиакомпания «ИТЕК-ЭЙР») was an airline based in Bishkek (Manas International Airport) in Kyrgyzstan.

Destinations

As of October 2008, Itek Air operated scheduled passenger flights to the following destinations:^[1]^[2]

The airline is banned from flying within the European Union.^[3]

On 24 August 2008, a Boeing 737-200, owned and operated by Itek Air (a Kyrgyz company) on a charter flight for Iran Aseman Airlines, flight 6895, crashed near Manas International Airport in Bishkek, the capital city of Kyrgyzstan, while attempting an emergency landing, returning to the airport of origin, 10 minutes after departure. Sixty-eight people were killed and 22 people survived the crash.^[4]

The fleet consisted of the following aircraft:^[5]

The registration of the aircraft were EX-127, EX-311 and EX-009. The last one crashed near Bishkek on 24 August 2008.

^ (in Russian) Polyot-Sirena Flight schedule
^ (in Russian) Itek Air website Расписание рейсов Archived 8 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine
^ "LIST OF AIR CARRIERS OF WHICH ALL OPERATIONS ARE SUBJECT TO A BAN WITHIN THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY" (PDF). European Union Transport commission. 24 July 2008. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 March 2009. Retrieved 25 August 2008.
^ "65 dead in Kyrgyz air crash". Sify. Archived from the original on 3 September 2008. Retrieved 25 August 2008.
^ "Itek Air". ch-aviation.ch. Archived from the original on 27 August 2008. Retrieved 24 August 2008.