Date: 21 NOV 2004
Time: 08:20 local
Type: Canadair CRJ200LR RegionalJet
Operator: China Yunnan Airlines
Registration: B-3072 ?
Msn / C/n: 7697
Year built: 2002
Engines: 2 General Electric CF34-3B1 jet engines
Crew: 6 fatalities / 6 on board
Passengers: 47 fatalities / 47 on board
Total: 53 fatalities / 53 on board
Airplane damage: Written off
Location: near Baotou Airport (BAV)
Phase: Initial Climb
Nature: Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: Baotou Airport (BAV)
Destination airport: Shanghai-Hongqiao Airport (SHA)
Flight number: MU5210
Crashed into a frozen lake in Nanhai Park just two kilometers past the runway. Reportedly the aircraft struck a park ticket office before it crashed into the water. State television said two people on the ground had been killed.

Source: Xinhua

Sad News Indeed – looks like it may have occurred on departure.

They are planning on using an Embraer E120 that seats 19 pax.

Some of their routes may work from Ayrshire using this aircraft, but they will be up against well established and well known to the public competition in trying to attract pax from the Greater Glasgow area.

Easyjet and Flybe have 4 rotations a day each between GLA & BFS/BHD.
Flybe will have 1 GLA to LPL rotation daily, however press reports suggest that this and EDI to LPL will soon be seeing a frequency increase.

Loganair fly twice daily to SYY from GLA, daily to LDY and daily to IOM along with Euromanx who fly this route twice daily.

Highland Airways Tried taking on BA Cityexpress on the GLA-SYY routes last year. They lasted less than 6 months on the route. Winter is not the time of year to be launching flights to the Highlands and Islands from the central belt of Scotland.

Ryanair have been wanting to launch PIK-SYY flights for a while, but disagreements with Highlands and Islands Airports Limited have prevented this from being launched.

KLM are keeping their 767’s for a while longer – late deliveries of the A330 is apparantly the reason. Any C or D check would probably be done before transfer to the new owner.

Doesn’t look quite as radical a design now as the initial design drawings showed.

At least it’s not just me that gets B&W pictures playing the DVD’s on the PS2.

I’ve got the Icelandair, Flyjet and Air Finland 757 ones.
The Icelandair one features both of their UK routes GLA & LHR.
The Flyjet one features trips to RAF Brize Norton and RAF Akrotiri, along with a visual approach into CFU which is pretty good.

The Global Express Aircraft are the base platform for the ASTOR battlefield surveillance system.

Not sure what the latest is with the tanker programme. EADS are still the favoured option with the A330, but there was some talk on PPRUNE of Marshall’s offering either more Tristar’s or 767’s that would be brought out of storage in the desert at a fraction of the cost of new build A330’s leased in under PFI.

And RAF grey is even harder to see against the greyish skies we generally get in the UK.

More to the point, if the RAF was not so broke the 146’s would probably have been replaced by now – something along the lines of the A319LR would suit.
It would also allow Blair Force 1 to be created – albeit on a mini-bus.