Air Gemini, also known as Air Gemini Cargo, is an airline

Airline

An airline provides air transport services for traveling passengers and freight. Airlines lease or own their aircraft with which to supply these services and may form partnerships or alliances with other airlines for mutual benefit...

 based in Luanda

Luanda

Luanda, formerly named São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda, is the capital and largest city of Angola. Located on Angola's coast with the Atlantic Ocean, Luanda is both Angola's chief seaport and its administrative center. It has a population of at least 5 million...

, Angola

Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...

, operating chartered passenger and cargo flights into Quatro de Fevereiro Airport

Quatro de Fevereiro Airport

Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport is located in Luanda, a city in the Luanda Province and the capital of Angola. Quatro de Fevereiro is Portuguese for February 4th, a national holiday in Angola marking the start of the armed struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime on 4 February...

 on behalf of the local mining industry, as well as services for humanitarian aid missions.

History

The airline was established and started operations in July 1999 as a cargo airline, especially for diamond

Diamond

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 mines. Passenger services were added in February 2002. Due to safety concerns regarding the whole Angolan airline industry, Air Gemini is on the list of air carriers banned in the European Union. In 2010 they entered financial difficulties and reduced operations.

Fleet

In 2011, the Air Gemini fleet included the following aircraft:

• 3 Boeing 727
  Boeing 727
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• 3 McDonnell Douglas DC-9
  McDonnell Douglas DC-9
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Accidents

On the 5 January 2001, an Air Gemini Boeing 727

Boeing 727

The Boeing 727 is a mid-size, narrow-body, three-engine, T-tailed commercial jet airliner, manufactured by Boeing. The Boeing 727 first flew in 1963, and for over a decade more were built per year than any other jet airliner. When production ended in 1984 a total of 1,832 aircraft had been produced...

 cargo aircraft (registered

Aircraft registration

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 S9-BAI) ran off the runway upon landing at Dundo Airport

Dundo Airport

Dundo Airport is an airport serving Dundo, a town in the Lunda Norte Province in Angola....

 following a flight from Luanda, killing one ground worker. The accident occurred because the airplane had touched the ground short of the runway threshold, resulting in a collapsed landing gear

Landing Gear

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and a subsequent skid-off.