Jat Airways
Jat Airways is the national airline carrier of Serbia and Montenegro and ranks as the 16th oldest European airline.It was first founded in 1927 as Aeroput, its name changed in 1947 to Jugoslovenski Aero-Transport and simply Jat Airways in January of 2003.
Its only accident occurred on January 26, 1972 over Srbska Kamenice in Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic). The DC-9 crashed following an explosion by a bomb placed by émigré Croat Ustaša extremists. There was however one survivor, a flight attendant by the name of Vesna Vulović entered the Guinness Book of Records for the highest fall without a parachute, she fell from 10,160 meters and not only lived to tell about it but continued working for the airline holding a desk job.
Its current fleet includes:
- Three ATR-72's, most of which were loaned to the charter Air Srpska company up to November 2003
- Six DC-9-30's
- One DC-10 that is currently being leased to Cubana de Aviacion for its Havana-Madrid flights
- Two Boeing 727-200's
- Ten Boeing 737-300's
- One Boeing 737-400
See also: Airline_History_Links
