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Old 10th March 2017 | 11:39
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WHBM
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It's an ex-TWA airplane. I flew it.
Actually not. It may have a TW suffixed tail number but was new to Avianca in Colombia in 1992, for 18 years. In 2010 it was sold to Sierra American/Ameristar, who registered it so, following on from some DC-9s they have with comparable suffixes. It was their only one of type. If I'm not mistaken this was no executive-interior aircraft, but laid out in one-class charter configuration.

Sports team charters seem to figure quite bit in these kind or RTO or landing over runs
And other incidents. I feel that as aviation charter purchasers such organisations are amateurs at it, and just look for the bottom bidder. Concepts such as detailed due diligence of the operator, etc, the sort of thing a mainstream carrier looks for if they need to select an ACMI substitute operator, are beyond them.
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