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Airline Image IATA ICAO Callsign Commenced operations Ceased operations Notes Air Caribbean Transport: ACT: 1968: 1970: Air Jamaica: JM: AJM: AIR JAMAICA: 1968: 2015
Air Jamaica was the flag carrier of Jamaica.It was owned and operated by Caribbean Airlines from May 2011 until the cessation of operations in 2015. Caribbean Airlines Limited, headquartered in Piarco, Trinidad and Tobago, had administrative offices for Air Jamaica located at Norman Manley International Airport in Kingston, Jamaica.
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The airline was established in 1973 as Jamaica Air Taxi, and later operated as Trans-Jamaican Airlines until it was taken over by business man Gordon "Butch" Stewart, who also controlled Air Jamaica in 1994. [2] When Air Jamaica was renationalized in December 2004, responsibility for Air Jamaica Express remained with Stewart and his organization.
Fly Jamaica Airways was certified by the Jamaica Civil Aviation Authority (JCAA) in September 2012 and was cleared to operate in the United States by US authorities in December. [3] Its inaugural flight from Kingston to New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport in the United States, was made on 14 February 2013. [4]
The pilot in command was 58-year-old Captain Basil Ferguson, [12] he joined Fly Jamaica Airways in 2018, and had a total of 11,755 flight hours. [5]: 24–25 The second in command was 33-year-old First Officer Keone Bryan, [12] he joined the airline in 2017, and had a total of 4,331 flight hours, including 317 hours on the Boeing 757.
It is the worst commercial air accident and second-worst aviation accident in the history of Hawaii. [21] July 25 – On Okinawa, the U.S. Army forms its first armed helicopter company, the Utility Tactical Transport Helicopter Company (UTTHCO) using Bell HU-1A ("Huey") helicopters equipped with machine guns and air-to-ground rockets. [22]