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based at

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Destinations

Nightexpress operated scheduled and chartered cargo flights from

, most of which were either to

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Fleet

As of December 2015, the Nightexpress fleet consisted of the following aircraft:

Accidents and incidents

Beech 99 Airliner, Nightexpress AN2166007

* On 30 June 1999 at 02:41 UTC, Nightexpress Flight 114, a

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( registered D-IBEX) crashed near

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, killing the two pilots on board. The aircraft had left

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at 01:25 UTC for a cargo flight to

, when the pilots reported failures in both engines at 02:34 UTC. The aircraft was cleared to perform an emergency landing at either

Brussels Airport Brussels Airport, nl, Luchthaven Brussel, vls, Vliegpling Brussel, german: Flughafen Brüssel is an international airport northeast of Brussels, the capital of Belgium. In 2019, more than 26 million passengers arrived or departed at Bruss ...

or Liège Airport, but ultimately crashed 5

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s short of the latter's runway.Nightexpress Flight 114 at the Aviation Safety Network
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References

External links

* {{Airlines of Germany Defunct airlines of Germany Airlines established in 1984 Airlines disestablished in 2017 1984 establishments in West Germany