CEM Air is an air leasing company based at Lanseria Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa.

CEM Air

IATA ' ICAO ' Callsign '
Founded
Hubs	Lanseria Airport
Focus cities	Johannesburg
Destinations
Headquarters	Johannesburg
Key people	Chief pilot MJ Booysen Chief maintainer Wynand Kleingeld
Website	http://www.cemair.co.za

[edit] Fleet

CEM leases Cessna Grand Caravan, Cessna 404 Titan Ambassador, Beechcraft 1900C and 1900D aircraft, all but the Titan using Pratt and Whitney PT6A turboprop engines.

[edit] Accidents and incidents

• On 1 September 2008 an Air Serv leased nineteen passenger Beechcraft 1900C crashed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, about 15 km northwest of Bukavu^[1][2] carrying two crew and fifteen passengers.^[3][4][5][6] The aircraft, wet leased and flown by crew from CEM Air, based at Lanseria Airport, Johannesburg South Africa, was arriving at Bukavu following technical service at N'Dolo Airport, Kinshasa.^[7] The aircraft was under the command of 24-year-old Rudi Knoetze of Johannesburg when it crashed into a mountainous ridge.^[8] Passengers included twelve Congolese, one French, one Indian, and one Canadian.^[9]

• On 2 May 2008 another CEM Air Beechcraft 1900, registered in Kenya flying from Wau to Juba, Sudan crashed near Rumbek killing all nineteen passengers and two crew. Among the passengers were two senior officials of the Sudan Peoples Liberation Army and their wives.^[10]

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