Société Aéro-Service Afrigo is an airline headquartered in

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. It operates chartered cargo and business passenger flights within Congo and to neighbouring countries out of its base at

Pointe-Noire Airport Antonio-Agostinho-Neto International Airport is an airport serving Pointe-Noire, a coastal city in the Republic of the Congo. The runway is surrounded by the densely populated city, and is inland from the Atlantic shore. History The airport w ...

. Flight International 27 March 2007

History

The airline was established and started operations in 1967 as an air freight transport department of a frozen food company. It later became an independent airline and today is wholly owned by the TAG Light Aviation Department. Since 16 November 2009, Aéro-Service is banned from entering the European Union, along with all other airlines registered in the Republic of the Congo.Information on Aéro-Service at airlineupdate.com

Fleet

As of May 2011, the Aéro-Service fleet consists of the following aircraft:

Accidents and incidents

*In June 1981, an Aéro-Service

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TN-ADS) suffered a crash landing and was subsequently written off. *On 11 March 1994, an Aéro-Service

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(registered TN-ADP) was damaged beyond repair in a crash landing at

Pointe Noire Airport Antonio-Agostinho-Neto International Airport is an airport serving Pointe-Noire, a coastal city in the Republic of the Congo. The runway is surrounded by the densely populated city, and is inland from the Atlantic shore. History The airport ...

, following a chartered flight from Port-Gentil with 4 passengers and 2 crew members on board. Upon landing approach, the landing gear failed to deploy, and the pilots did not manage to execute a go-around, but belly-landed on the runway. *On 23 December 2005, an Aéro-Service Antonov An-24 (registered ER-AZX), which was leased from

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, was substantially damaged when it ran off the runway upon landing. *On 25 January 2008, an Aéro-Service Antonov An-12BP (registered EK-11660) suffered a brake failure whilst taxiing at Pointe Noire Airport, so that it ran into a parked Boeing 727-247 (9L-LEF). Both aircraft were damaged beyond economic repair. *On 19 June 2010 at ca 10:00 local time, an Aéro-Service

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(registered TN-AFA)

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near Djoum, Cameroon, killing all nine passengers and the two crew members on board. . * On 30 November 2012, an Aéro-Service

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on a cargo flight from Pointe Noire to

Brazzaville Brazzaville (, kg, Kintamo, Nkuna, Kintambo, Ntamo, Mavula, Tandala, Mfwa, Mfua; Teke: ''M'fa'', ''Mfaa'', ''Mfa'', ''Mfoa''Roman Adrian Cybriwsky, ''Capital Cities around the World: An Encyclopedia of Geography, History, and Culture'', ABC-CLI ...

during landing short of runway 5L at Maya-Maya Airport in Brazzaville in bad weather, in a residential area. All six crew members, five of them from Armenia, one police officer on board the aircraft, and 26 people on the ground were killed, and 14 people on the ground were injured.

References

External links

Official website
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