Bakhtar Afghan Airlines

Destinations

Bakhtar Afghan Airlines offer scheduled flights to the following destinations:

• Bamyan – Bamyan Airport
• Chaghcharan – Chaghcharan Airport
• Darwaz – Darwaz Airport
• Fayzabad – Fayzabad Airport
• Herat – Herat Airfield
• Jeddah - King Abdulaziz International Airport
• Kabul – Kabul International Airport (base)
• Kunduz – Kunduz Airport
• Khwahan – Khwahan Airport
• Maymana – Maymana Airport
• Mazar-i-Sharif – Mazar-i-Sharif Airport
• Shegnan – Sheghnan Airport Flights were operated using Yakovlev Yak-40 or de Havilland Twin Otter aircraft.

Accidents and incidents

• On 25 January 1972, a Bakhtar Yakovlev Yak-40 (registered YA-KAD) was damaged beyond repair when its hit trees during approach of Khost Airfield near the Afghan town of Khost.
• On 18 April 1973, a Bakhtar Twin Otter (registered YA-GAT) carrying 16 passengers (most of whom were American or Canadian citizens) crashed upon take-off at Bamyan Airport, killing two passengers and two of the three crew members on board.
• On 10 March 1983, a Bakhtar Twin Otter (registered YA-GAZ) operating a domestic flight from Kabul to Uruzgan crashed during a thunderstorm near the town of Ghazni, killing all 17 passengers and 2 crew members on board.
• On 8 January 1985, another Bakhtar Twin Otter (registered YA-GAY) was damaged beyond repair in a landing incident at Bamyan Airport. There were no fatalities among the 17 passengers and 3 crew members.
• On 4 September 1985 (during the Soviet–Afghan War), a Bakhtar Antonov An-26 (registered YA-BAM) was shot down by a surface-to-air missile near Kandahar. The aircraft was carrying 47 passengers and 5 crew members on a scheduled flight from Kandahar to Farah. There were no survivors.
• On 11 June 1987, another Bakhtar An-26 (registered YA-BAL) was shot down by a missile near Khost, killing 53 out of the 55 people on board. The aircraft had been on a flight from Kandahar to Kabul. Rebels had downed the aircraft, thinking that it was a military Ilyushin Il-14.

2020-2021 relaunch

Bakhtar Airlines was relaunched in 2020 for domestic flights. The new company operates a single Boeing 737-500 leased from Ariana Afghan Airlines.

References

References

1. 5th [https://asn.flightsafety.org/database/operators/6382 Information on Bakhtar Airlines at the Aviation Safety Network]
2. ''Flight International''. 23 May 1987. [http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1987/1987%20-%200495.html?search=%22Bakhtar%20Afghan%20Airlines%22 5].
3. [http://www.timetableimages.com/i-bc/bakhtar2.jpg Bakhtar 1975 timetable]
4. [https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/330610 Bakhtar 1972 incident at the Aviation Safety Network]
5. [https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/330212 Bakhtar 1973 crash at the Aviation Safety Network]
6. [https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/327695 Bakhtar 1983 accident at the Aviation Safety Network]
7. [https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/327289 1985 Bakhtar incident at the Aviation Safety Network]
8. [https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/327134 1985 Bakhtar shoot-down incident at the Aviation Safety Network]
9. [https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/326760 Bakhtar 1987 shoot-down incident at the Aviation Safety Network]