Lauda Air

Lauda Air (Code AITA: NG ; Code ICAO: LDA ) is a Austrian Airline company , subsidiary company with 100% of Austrian Airlines. It was rested by the pilot of Formule 1 Niki Lauda in 1978. Its first flights in 1989 were Vienna - Bangkok - Sydney/Melbourne.

Same Niki Lauda founded shortly after another company, Italy this time, which bears almost the same name Lauda Air Italia (Code AITA: L4 ; Code ICAO: LDI ) and a company with the low tariffs in 2004, Niki , (Code AITA: HG ; Code ICAO: NLY , which collaborates with the German airline company Air Berlin.

The May 26th 1991, the flight NG004, left Bangkok for Vienna, carried out on a Boeing 767-300 (Identifier: OE-LAV - Mozart ) disintegrated in full sky, just after his takeoff with his 223 passengers and team members. None of them survived the accident. The cause of the catastrophe would be the deployment of the reverse of the one of the engine of Boeing.

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