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'Mountain Air Cargo' is an American cargo airline based in Denver, North Carolina, USA. It is a major contract carrier for FedEx, operating in the eastern USA, Canada, Brazil, Argentina and the Caribbean. Its main maintenance facility is at Kinston Regional Jetport.^[1]

Contents

History

Incidents and accidents

Fleet

External links

References

History

The airline was established in 1974 and is wholly owned by Air T. It has 231 employees (at March 2007).

Incidents and accidents

★ 11 October 1985 - Mountain Air Cargo De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 200 (N3257), on a flight from State College to Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, collided with rising terrian near Homer City, probably due to pilot error. The pilot was killed. There was no one else on board. ^[2]

★ 19 January 1988 - Mountain Air Cargo De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter 200 (N996SA), on a flight from Erie, Pennsylvania to Charlotte, North Carolina, descended below the glide path on approach to Charlotte/Douglas International Airport, collided with a tree and struck the ground 1.6km away from the airport. The crash was due to pilot error. The pilot was killed. There was no one else on board.

★ 9 January 1998 - Mountain Air Cargo Cessna 208B Caravan I Super Cargomaster, on take off from Maiden-Little Mountain Airport, North Carolina, on a flight to Greensboro, veered off the runway and hit trees as it tried to ascend. The crash was due to pilot error. The pilot was killed. There was no one else on board.

Fleet

As of March 2007 the Mountain Air Cargo fleet includes :

★ 4 ATR 42-300

★ 4 ATR 42-300F

★ 4 ATR 42-320

★ 1 Raytheon Beech King Air C90B

★ 2 Cessna 208 Caravan

★ 40 Cessna Caravan 675

★ 2 Fokker F27 Mk500

★ 2 Shorts 330-200
Other aircraft:

★ 3 ATR 72-202

★ 1 ATR 72-212

External links

★ Mountain Air Cargo

★ Air T

References

1. Directory: World Airlines
2. Aviation Safety Network retroeved 26 November 2006