Aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul services firm Vector Aerospace (Booth No. C4332) renewed its engine services agreement with Air Greenland, based in Nuuk, Greenland. Under this two-year extension, Vector provides Air Greenland with fixed- and rotary-wing engine repair and overhaul support from its two facilities in Canada–Vector Aerospace Engine Services Atlantic in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, and Vector Aerospace Helicopter Services North America in Richmond, British Columbia.
Greenland
January 29, 2010 - 6:07am
Piaggio Avanti II, Greenland, Oct. 16, 2009–The pilot departed Keflavik, Iceland, for a two-hour ferry flight to Narsarsuaq, Greenland. When he reached his destination he encountered inclement weather and decided to divert. The turboprop twin ran out of fuel while attempting to reach the alternate airport at Kangerlussuaq and crash-landed on the icecap approximately 55 miles short of its destination.
November 27, 2007 - 9:35am
All three people were killed August 4 aboard a German-registered cargo-configured Falcon 20 when it hit a 700-ft mountain about 4.5 mi from Greenland’s Narsarsuaq Airport while on approach. Information on the weather at the time of the accident wasn’t immediately available. The 1966 business jet was registered to Ortwin Naske of Naske Air Service in Braunschweig, Germany, according to AvData in Wichita.
