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Gambia Bird
Gambia Bird Airlines Limited was the flag carrier airline of Gambia headquartered in Kanifing with its home base at Banjul International Airport. It suspended operations in .
History.
Gambia Bird was founded by the German carrier Germania in October 2012. The airline was launched in partnership with the Government of Gambia in order to replace the services of Air Afrique, which was liquidated in 2002. Germania retained a 90% ownership share of Gambia Bird.
The carrier started operations on with an Airbus A319-100 leased from
degrees to the International Space Station, making air bases in Spain and France more suitable for an emergency landing.
The airport was the main hub of Gambia Bird until the airline ceased operations in late 2014.
Accidents and incidents.
- On 4 July 1946, a Bristol Freighter 170 with registration G-AHJB, flying from Bathurst (now Banjul) to Natal on a delivery flight to Argentina, experienced a fuel shortage that forced the crew to ditch the plane. The crewmembers were rescued by an American Steamer.