Air Guinee Express

Air Guinee Express was an airline based in Conakry, Guinea. It operated domestic services. Its main base was Conakry International Airport.[1]

Air Guinee Express

Code data

  • IATA Code: 2U
  • ICAO Code: GIP
  • Callsign: FUTURE EXPRESS

History

The airline was established on 31 December 1960 by the Guinean government as Air Guinée. In 1992 it underwent a restructuring to improve profitability, but it never recovered and its operations were taken over by Groupe Futurelec. The airline rebranded as Air Guinée Express.[1]

Destinations

Air Guinee Express operated services to the following international scheduled destinations (at January 2005): Abidjan, Bamako, Banjul, Dakar, Freetown, Kinshasa and Lagos.

Fleet

The Air Guinee Express fleet consisted of the following aircraft (at March 2007):[1]

Previously operated

At June 2005 the airline also operated:

Incidents and accidents
Air Guinee Express Boeing 737-205 at Freetown Lungi Airport (2006 photo)

On 11 August 2004 a Boeing 737-200, registration 3X-GCM, failed to take off from Freetown - Lungi International Airport (Sierra Leone). There were no fatalities among the 127 passengers and crew members. The aircraft was damaged beyond repair and was written off; the wreckage can still be seen resting next to the runway.

Accident description on aviation-safety.net

gollark: Worrying.
gollark: Is there a repair or fsck tool you can run?
gollark: The popular example is those Therac machines, but IIRC they didn't cause that many deaths compared to this.
gollark: It annoys me that papers aren't shipped as HTML or something which I can actually view conveniently at different screen sizes.
gollark: I wonder if they made some kind of Verilog to JBIG2 compiler internally.

References
  1. Flight International 27 March 2007
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