Free Airlines is an air operator out of

N'Dolo Airport N'Dolo Airport , also known as Ndolo Airport, is a secondary airport in the city of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, located in the commune of Barumbu near the city center. The ''Aviation militaire de la Force Publique'' was establi ...

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. The airline is on the

list of air carriers banned in the European Union The European Union (EU) publishes a list of air carriers that are banned from entering the airspace of any of its member states, usually for failing to meet EU regulatory oversight standards. The first version of the list was published in 200 ...

Incidents

*June 21,

2007 Free Airlines Let-410 crash 7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has symbolic associations in religion, mythology, supers ...

(Reg 9Q-CEU) with one fatality *September 24, 2007

Karibu Airways Karibu Airways was an airline in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It stood on the List of air carriers banned in the EU. Due to two plane crashes in 2007 (see below) the confidence in the airline was lost. Subsequently, all operations c ...

Let-410 loss (Reg 9Q-CVL), departed from

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, crashed on landing at Malemba Nkulu with one fatality. Aircraft was operated by Free Airlines.

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Airlines of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Companies based in Kinshasa {{DRCongo-stub

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