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China-Japan-Koreas
Nork airline banned from flying to Europe
2010-01-09
SEOUL, Jan. 9 (Yonhap) -- Air Koryo, North Korea's air carrier, has been banned from offering flight services to Europe for a fifth year after having failed to meet international safety requirements, U.S. international broadcaster Radio Free Asia (RFA) said Saturday.

The North Korean carrier has been involved in the list of carriers prohibiting from flying to the 27 members of European Union that was released this year, RFA said.

Air Koryo reportedly has a fleet of about 20 planes made between the 1960s and 1970s in the Soviet Union.
The fabled Ilyushin-76. With Nork maintenance. What could go wrong?
Posted by:Steve White

#10  The fabled Ilyushin-76.

They wish. Try Tu-134s and Tu-154s. Tu134: the only airplane I ever flew that actually rained inside the cabin when flying though rain.
Posted by: ed   2010-01-09 22:50  

#9  *happy sigh* I just love Rantburg!
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-01-09 22:31  

#8  Where's that "Mandarin Airlines" picture?
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2010-01-09 21:59  

#7  Unscheduled sudden decleration,Premature Decompression and and random non-choice landing fields at random.

Call it Infinity airlines, trips to heaven and hell at random.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2010-01-09 21:58  

#6  Free range landings.

Premature Pyongyang.

Fly by Juche.
Posted by: Skunky Glins****   2010-01-09 21:42  

#5  Accelerated deceleration.
Posted by: trailing wife   2010-01-09 19:27  

#4  "pre-scheduled landing"?
Posted by: Frank G   2010-01-09 18:56  

#3  Commodore Frank---you're mixing up terms. It is not "future crash" it's "accelerated depreciation."
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2010-01-09 18:55  

#2  not so much an "airline" as a "future crash" industry
Posted by: Frank G   2010-01-09 12:10  

#1  North Korea has an airline? Wow.

I am trying to picture the in-flight food service; what would they serve? "Bark? Grass? A little water with your gravel, running dog lackey sir?"

I got to fly Aeroflot once in the bad old days (my Swiss Air flight was forced to land in central USSR due to maintenance issue, so they switched us over to Aeroflot). Now THAT was a treat. First class box lunches, the totality of in-flight food service, included an apple (of sorts) and a stale-ish sandwich with a thin fish paste filling. Good vodka and caviar though, and lots of it. I remember streaks of a black oily substance running down the cabin walls from the ventilation slits, a mixture of condensed water and cigarette smoke my nose told me. And brother was it cold. The vodka was there for a reason.

North Korea has an airline?
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2010-01-09 07:45  

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