On 9 March 2021, Icelandair Group announced that Air Iceland Connect is to merge its sales operations with Icelandair by uniting domestic and international services from 16 March 2021 and continuing the current flight operations under the Icelandair brand. The company Air Iceland Connect continues to operate domestic flights under its own legal responsibility but using the Icelandair brand. Destinations Air Iceland Connect operated to the following destinations under its own name, before its operations were integrated with Icelandair's in March 2021. Codeshare agreements Air Iceland Connect had codeshare agreements on flights to the Faroe Islands operated by Atlantic Airways, as well as on services to Grímsey, Thorshofn, Vopnafjörður and Nerlerit Inaat Airport operated by Norlandair. Fleet , the Air Iceland Connect fleet consisted of the following aircraft, all of which now operate the same flights under the Icelandair brand: Among the destinations, most in Greenland and some in Iceland have runways less than in length. The Q200 is the only aircraft type possessed by Air Iceland Connect compatible with such runways. Its retired fleet includes Fokker 50s. Accidents and incidents On 14 April 1942, Flugfélag Íslands Smyrill crashed shortly after takeoff from Reykjavík Airport, killing merchant and former athlete Axel Kristjánsson and an officer from the British occupation force in Iceland, while injuring two others. On 29 May 1947, a Flugfélag Íslands Douglas DC-3 with registration TF-ISI crashed at Héðinsfjörður, Iceland, in bad weather, killing all 25 on board. As of 2018 this is the worst aircraft accident to occur in Iceland. On 26 September 1970, Flugfélag Íslands Flight 704, a Fokker F27 Friendship, with registration TF-FIL, crashed into the mountains of Mykines in the Faroe Islands, in heavy fog, killing the Icelandic captain and 7 Faroese passengers. 26 passenger and crew survived the crash. Three passengers, who escaped with minor injuries, hiked for an hour down the mountain to the village of Mykines, alerting authorities. The majority of the villagers went up the mountain to aid the injured. On 18 June 1980, Flugleiðir's Fokker F27 Friendship, with 19 people on board, made an emergency landing on Keflavík Airport after its landing gear failed to come down on its approach to Vestmannaeyjar. The pilots managed to lower two of the plane's three landing gears and successfully land the plane in Keflavík with minimal damage to the plane. On 20 March 1982, the left engine of Flugleiðir's Fokker F27 Friendship,