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18-521: Hewa Bora Airways had 1,100 employees in March 2007. Operations were suspended after the 2011 crash of Hewa Bora Airways Flight 952 , and the airline is now defunct. The remains of the business were taken over by a new airline, FlyCongo , which in turn merged with the Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation only six months after it was started up. The airline was established and started operations in 1998 with

36-515: A Boeing 727 passenger jet on a domestic flight from Kinshasa , to Kisangani , Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), crashed on final approach at Kisangani, killing 74 of the 118 people on board. Hewa Bora Airways Flight 952 had taken off on 8 July from Kinshasa's N'djili Airport with 112 passengers and 6 crew on board bound for Kisangani Airport . At around 15:00 local time, the aircraft attempted an approach reportedly to Kisangani's runway 13, but

54-640: A RAK Airways Boeing 757-200 to operate the flights. For a short time, the airline flew twice weekly Kinshasa-Brussels-Paris-Brussels-Kinshasa. Such flights were discontinued due to the EU 's total ban of Hewa Bora operations. It then became impossible for Hewa Bora to fly to the EU. The Hewa Bora Airways fleet included the following aircraft when it suspended operations: Hewa Bora Airways also operated these aircraft prior to ceasing operations: Hewa Bora Airways Flight 952 On 8 July 2011, Hewa Bora Airways Flight 952 ,

72-459: A new airline in the Congo. The airline's name was Korongo ; it was launched without Hewa Bora and started operations during 2012, suspending all operations during 2015. On 24 June 2009, the new website of Hewa Bora Airways went online, after not having been updated since 2005. On 16 July 2011, the airline's air operator's certificate was suspended, following the accident that befell Flight 952 on 8 July 2011. The entire Hewa Bora Airways fleet

90-497: A radio broadcaster Science, technology and medicine [ edit ] VHF omnidirectional range , a radio navigation aid used in aviation Vestibulo-ocular reflex , a reflex eye movement Voice-operated recording, see Voice-operated switch Visual Operating Rules, another term for visual flight rules in aviation Video operation room, part of the set-up for the video assistant referee in association football Entertainment [ edit ] Vor of Barrayar ,

108-684: The Doctor Who episode " Spyfall " Captain Vor, an antagonist in the videogame Warframe Other uses [ edit ] The goddess Vör in Norse mythology vor, ISO 639-3 code for the Voro language of Nigeria Version of record , a fixed copyedited, typeset and formatted manuscript See also [ edit ] Vor v zakone , or thief in law , a rank in the Russian Mafia Topics referred to by

126-649: The DRC under the Swaziland registration 3D-BOC. That registration was cancelled in 2005 and the aircraft was then operated under the São Tomé and Príncipe register as S9-DBM, but investigators could not obtain any certificate of registration proving the transfer. In 2010, the aircraft was finally registered to the DRC as 9Q-COP. At the time of the accident, the Boeing 727 was 45 years old and had flown for over 52,000 hours. The casualties of

144-579: The air traffic controllers were not properly licensed. Both facilities that should have recorded all air traffic radio communications in the tower were also inoperative. VOR (Redirected from VOR ) [REDACTED] Look up vor  or VOR in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. VOR or vor may refer to: Organizations [ edit ] Vale of Rheidol Railway in Wales Voice of Russia ,

162-491: The airline's previous Boeing 767 and McDonnell Douglas MD-82 aircraft. It also announced it would be destroying six aircraft left behind by Hewa Bora to reduce safety concerns. After a dispute with Brussels Airlines, Hewa Bora Airways decided to rescind the codeshare agreement between the two airlines and start their own flights to Brussels . However, as Hewa Bora was banned from the European Union , they had to wet-lease

180-561: The airline, including Flight 122 on 15 April 2008 and an accident involving Flight 601 at N'djili Airport on 21 June 2010. A commission was set up to investigate the accident. A preliminary report was issued a month later, in August 2011, without data from the cockpit voice recorder nor flight data recorder , which had been sent to the US National Transportation Safety Board for analysis. The commission found that

198-408: The approach was discontinued. The aircraft then approached the opposite runway 31, but impacted terrain about 400 metres (1,300 ft; 440 yd) from the runway threshold. At the time, thunderstorms and poor visibility were reported in the area, and Kisangani Airport had no official instrument approach procedure published, although a VOR/DME procedure was available commercially. Reports on

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216-472: The crew of Flight 952 had misjudged the weather conditions at destination, and that weather information provided to the crew by air traffic controllers at Kisangani was incorrect. It also emerged that the captain of the aircraft was licensed to fly the MD-82 aircraft, but his type rating for the Boeing 727 had expired and was pending renewal. The control tower at Kisangani was found to be understaffed, and some of

234-634: The flight were: An early investigation found that five victims were not originally included on the aircraft's manifest, and that some people were using tickets registered under other names. Among the victims was the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Isangi , Camille Lembi Zaneli . The Ministry of Transport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo suspended Hewa Bora Airways air operator's certificate , citing repeated accidents occurred to

252-522: The joining together of Zaire Airlines , Zaire Express , and Congo Airlines . On 1 November 2007, HBA (51%) and Brussels Airlines subsidiary Pan African Airlines (49%) announced a new domestic partnership to be called AirDC , to operate BAe 146 -200 and Boeing 737 aircraft, principally to Lubumbashi , Mbuji-Mayi , Brazzaville , and Douala . This project was cancelled because of disagreements between Brussels Airlines and Hewa Bora. On 15 December 2009, Brussels Airlines announced they were working on

270-481: The noble families of Barrayar in the science fiction Vorkosigan Saga Vor (Star Wars) , a race in the Star Wars universe VOR , a 1958 science fiction novel by James Blish Vor Daj, protagonist of the 1940 novel Synthetic Men of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs Russian title of the 1997 film The Thief VOR: The Maelstrom , a science fiction miniature wargame VOR, a search engine and media company in

288-467: The number of casualties initially varied, with the final toll reaching 74 fatalities and 44 injuries. The aircraft involved was a Boeing 727-022 with Congolese registration 9Q-COP, s/n 18323. It was first delivered to United Airlines in 1965 and had served with Korean Air , World Airways , and Ladeco before it was acquired by Hewa Bora Airways in April 2010. The aircraft had previously operated in

306-403: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Vor . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Vor&oldid=1249774405 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

324-565: Was blacklisted in European airspace . The Lockheed L-1011-500 and the Boeing 767-200ER were the last planes accepted in Europe before new noise regulations and storage of the 767 definitively banned the airline. Hewa Bora Airways was the last airline allowed to operate from the Democratic Republic of the Congo into Europe. In March 2012, FlyCongo launched operations with the remains of Hewa Bora. It used

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