Blue-Air

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Independent Air Transport came into being in 1954 when a group of airline pilots purchased the London based travel agents, Independent Air Travel. However,an accident on the 02Sep1958,when a Viking crashed at Southall after take off from Heathrow,killing the crew, led to allegations of improper practices in both maintenance and operations. This, in turn led to the departure of the company’s chairman and managing director, Captain Marian Kozubski. The reorganized airline then changed it’s name to Blue-Air, probably in order to distance itself from the adverse publicity surrounding the Southall crash. Charter operations continued throughout the summer of 1959but by Sep1959, work was declining , and on 12Oct1959, the last revenue earning service took place. Within a few days the company had ceased to exist, its aircraft being sold very quickly

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