Wasa Wings
Wasa Wings was a Finnish airline which had operations in 1980s. got its permission to fly in November 1981 of Civil Aviation Administration of Finland. After that this permission was extended to also include taxi and charter flights by 1982 to 1983. In December 1983 Wasa Wings started regular light route traffic between Ilmajoki and Helsinki-Vantaa. It flew from Helsinki to Ylivieska in 1985. After that many reclamations of the company operation was received from customers and staff. The company had a poor security culture and airline captains were forced to shift numbers in flight logs.
In August 31 1986 its Embraer 110 EMB-P1 Bandeirante (OH-EBA, built in 1979 and leased from Karair) crashed in power line which was in edge of the Ylivieska airport. The plane cut trees over 150 meters and then caught fire. The company lost its flying licence when there happened second crash in November 14 1988 in Ilmajoki. The company's main owners were the chairman Veikko Tuutti and certain companies from Ostrobothnia. Also it had numerous small-part investors. Wasa Wings had 13,000 passengers in 1987 and 14,600 passengers in 1988.
In addition to Embraer, the company had one Cessna 404 and two Beech 99 aircraft.
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