Air Mauritanie
| Air Mauritanie | |
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| IATA code : | MR |
| ICAO code : | MRI |
| Call sign : | MIKE ROMEO |
| Founding: | 1962 |
| Operation stopped: | 2007 |
| Seat: |
 Mauritania
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| Turnstile : | |
| Fleet size: | 4th |
| Aims: | Inland, West Africa , Las Palmas , Paris |
| Air Mauritanie ceased operations in 2007. The information in italics refer to the last status before the end of operation. | |
Air Mauritanie was a state-owned Mauritanian airline .
history
Air Mauritanie was founded by the state in 1962 and started flying a year later with a Fokker F-27 . Two Fokker F28s have been in service since 1983, Air Afrique has a stake in the capital . We worked with Iberia and Royal Air Maroc on flights to Gran Canaria and Casablanca. In 1998 an ATR 42 was leased, but it had to be returned. A Fokker F28 was purchased as a replacement.
Air Mauritanie was banned from flying in England. Air Mauritanie presented their own operations in September 2007 due to insolvency and lack of aircraft and leases since only several freighters. The company was dissolved in October 2007.
fleet
(As of October 2007)
- 1 Boeing 727-200 (operated for the government; decommissioned)
- 1 Fokker F28 (closed)
- 2 Boeing 737-700 (decommissioned)
Incidents
- On July 1, 1994, an Air Mauritanie (5T-CLF) Fokker F28-4000 , which took off from Nouakchott , crashed while landing in Tidjikja . The machine had previously got into a sandstorm, which is why the pilots had to abort several approaches. During the last attempt, the machine hit the runway hard, causing the landing gear to collapse. The Fokker came off the runway and slid against a rock. The machine went up in flames. Of the 93 people on board, 80 died, including the entire crew and 76 of the 89 passengers. The 13 survivors were seriously injured (see also Air Mauritanie flight 625 ) .
- On February 15, 2007, a Boeing 737 with 79 people on board was hijacked by an armed man en route from Nouakchott to Nouadhibou . The captain made an emergency landing in Las Palmas , the island capital of Gran Canaria . After landing, the pilot braked so hard that the hijacker fell to the ground and the passengers could pounce on him. Then the Guardia Civil stormed the plane. There were no injuries; the kidnapper was caught.
See also
Web links
- Air Mauritanie website ( Memento from May 31, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
Individual evidence
- ↑ aerotransport.org: Air Mauritanie Flotte October 11, 2007.
- ↑ Accident report F28-4000 5T-CLF , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 2, 2019.