Kam Air

Kam Air is the first privately owned passenger airline in Afghanistan. It was founded on 31 August 2003 and its base is Kabul International Airport. Their first flight operated on 8 November 2003 between Kabul, Herat and Mazar-e-Sharif with a Boeing 727.

Code Data

• IATA Code: RQ
• ICAO Code: KMR

Services

Kam Air currently operates the following services (at February 2005):

Kabul to Almaty, Dubai, Dusseldorf, Herat, Istanbul, and Mazar-e-Sharif

Incidents and Accidents

In September 2004 the Antonov AN24 operated by Kam Air slewed off the runway while landing at Kabul slightly injuring some of the 27 passengers aboard, but the plane was not damaged. The Boeing 737 flown by Kam Air vanished from radar screens on 3 February 2005 as it approached Kabul airport (on a flight from Herat) in poor weather, sparking a massive search operation for the 96 passengers and eight crew. The wreckage of the plane was found on 5 February 2005 in the mountains east of Kabul, and all 104 people aboard appeared to have been killed. (See Kam Air Boeing 737 disaster and Kam Air 904 Crash for details.)

Fleet

The airline fleet currently consists of (at March 2005):

• 1 Boeing 767-269ER
• 1 Antonov 24RV

External links

• Kam Air
• Kam Air jet Fleet Detail