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Air Volga

LCC Air Volga (Russian: ООО «Авиакомпания Во́лга») was an airline headquartered in Volgograd, Russia, operating scheduled passenger flights and holiday charters from its base at Volgograd International Airport.[1]

This article is about a Russian airline from 1992 to 2010. For the brand name currently used for certain regional flights, see RusLine.

IATA

1992 (1992) (following the dissolution of Aeroflot)

2010 (2010) (acquired by RusLine)

Volgograd International Airport

Volgograd, Russia

www.vae.ru (defunct)

On 25 January 1995, a Volga Airlines (registered RA-87464) was damaged beyond repair when it overran the runway on landing at Rostov-on-Don Airport, subsequently colliding with a concrete wall. The ten passengers and four crew members on the flight from Volgograd survived the accident, which was later attributed to pilot error.[6]

Yakovlev Yak-40

On 2 June 1995, the twelve people on board a Volga Airlines (registered CCCP-68142) died when the aircraft crashed in poor weather conditions near Volgograd.[5]

Antonov An-2

The on 24 August 2004 with its 44 fatalities was the worst incident in the history of the airline. A bomb detonated on board the Tupolev Tu-134 (registered RA-65080) en route a flight from Moscow to Volgograd, resulting in the aircraft crashing in Tula Oblast. Nearly simultaneously, another bomb was exploded on a Siberian Airlines flight. Female suicide terrorists from Chechnya were made responsible for these attacks.[7]

Bombing of Flight 1303