Mogadishu airport

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Mogadishu airport
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Characteristics
ICAO code HCMM
IATA code MGQ
Coordinates

2 ° 0 ′ 53 "  N , 45 ° 18 ′ 18"  E Coordinates: 2 ° 0 ′ 53 "  N , 45 ° 18 ′ 18"  E
Height above MSL 9 m (30  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 12 km southwest of Mogadishu
Start-and runway
05/23 3150 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Mogadishu airport , after the first president of Somalia since June 2007, Aden Abdullah Osman Daar Aden Adde International Airport named, is the international passenger airport of the Somali capital Mogadishu . It is located in the southwest of the city directly on the coast to the Indian Ocean and has a runway.

history

In 1977 the Lufthansa plane “Landshut” ( Boeing 737-200 from Lufthansa ) hijacked by a Palestinian terrorist squad was liberated by the anti-terrorist unit GSG 9 at Mogadishu airport .

During the UN mission UNOSOM ( Operation Restore Hope ) after the outbreak of the Somali civil war , the airport was the base of the US Marines . After that it could not be used for eleven years because of the war. The Union of Islamic Courts , which temporarily brought large parts of Somalia under its control in 2006, reopened it on July 15, 2006. Ethiopia, which felt threatened by the Union of Islamic Courts, declared war on December 24, 2006 and then bombed the airport in order to prevent weapons or fighters from flying in from abroad.

In the meantime, the airport has been rebuilt and made usable with Turkish help.

Airlines flying to the airport:

There are currently no airlines to and from Germany.

Incidents

  • On October 12, 2015, an Airbus A300B4-200F operated by the Egyptian company Tristar Air landed on a road about 25 km west-northwest of Mogadishu. The crew of the cargo plane had previously tried unsuccessfully to land on the unlit Mogadishu airport after sunset. One member - according to another source two members - of the seven-person crew suffered minor injuries, the 35-year-old aircraft was no longer economically repairable. According to the flight safety information service JACDEC , there was no runway lighting in Mogadishu for years.
  • On February 2, 2016, an Airbus A321 -111 operated by Daallo Airlines had to make an emergency landing at Mogadishu airport after an explosion on board. The plane had started there shortly before on a flight to Djibouti . An assassin tried to destroy the plane with a bomb. However, the explosion only created a hole in the aircraft hull through which the assassin was sucked out of the machine. There were no further fatalities.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Turkish Airlines begins service to Mogadishu (Somalia) on March 6, 2012 Turkish Airlines website (en)
  2. ↑ Jubbah Airways flight plan ( Memento of the original dated November 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (en) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jubba-airways.com
  3. ↑ Jubbah Airways flight plan ( Memento of the original dated November 3, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (en) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jubba-airways.com
  4. ↑ Flight plan to Mogadishu ( Memento of the original dated December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (en) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.africanexpress.co.ke
  5. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 13, 2015: Pilots land Airbus on the road , accessed October 13, 2015
  6. ↑ JACDEC, October 12, 2015: TriStar Cargo A300 made forced landing on road near Mogadishu , accessed October 13, 2015