Aerolift

IATA ICAO Callsign - - -
Founded	2002
Ceased operations	2009
Headquarters	Johannesburg, South Africa
Website	http://www.aerolift.org/ (defunct)

Aerolift was a South African airline based in Bryanston, Gauteng, Johannesburg, operating chartered passenger and cargo flights within Africa using Soviet-built aircraft. Aerolift also offered aircraft lease services. The airline was launched in 2002 and shut down in 2009 following two fatal accidents that had occurred in the same year.^[1][2]

Fleet

Upon closure, the Aerolift fleet included the following aircraft:^[2]

• 1 Antonov An-12
• 1 Antonov An-26
• 1 Antonov An-32
• 1 Antonov An-72
• 1 Antonov An-124
• 1 Ilyushin Il-76
• 1 Lockheed Tristar

Accidents and incidents

• On 20 February 2009, an Aerolift Antonov An-12 crashed upon take-off at Luxor International Airport, Egypt due to an engine fire, killing all five crew members on board.^[3]
• On March 9, 2009 Aerolift Ilyushin Il-76 S9-SAB crashed into Lake Victoria just after takeoff from Entebbe Airport, Uganda, killing all 11 people on board. Two of the engines had caught fire on take-off. The aircraft had been chartered by DynCorp on behalf of AMISOM. The accident was investigated by Uganda's Ministry of Transport, which concluded that all four engines were time-expired and that Aerolift's claim that maintenance had been performed which extended their service live and that the work had been certified could not be substantiated.^[4]