Bangui M'Poko International Airport
| Bangui M'Poko International Airport | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | FEFF |
| IATA code | GFA |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 368 m (1207 ft )
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| Start-and runway | |
| 17/35 | 2600 m × 45 m asphalt |
The Bangui Airport ( english : Bangui M'Poko International Airport ) is an airport of Bangui in the Central African Republic .
location
The airport is located near the city of Bangui , about six kilometers northwest of the city center.
history
The airport opened in June 1967 for a capacity of 10,000 air passengers per year. In 2012 the airport had around 120,000 passengers.
In the conflicts from 2012 between Forces Armées Centrafricaines , Séléka and Anti-Balaka , the airport was of strategic importance and was occupied by French soldiers.
In May 2014, the facility served as an unofficial refugee camp for around 60,000 displaced people.
Airfield features
The airport has various navigation aids. The runway 17/35 has an instrument landing system (ILS), there is also a rotary radio beacon (VOR) with the identifier: MPK. A distance measuring equipment (DME) is also available.
Airlines and Destinations
The airport is served by these airlines (as of October 23, 2018):
- Air France from Paris (CDG)
- Kenya Airways to / from Nairobi , Entebbe , Douala
- Royal Air Maroc to / from Casablanca , Douala
- Asky Airlines from / to Lomé and Douala
- Camair-Co from / to Douala
Incidents
- On December 8, 1950, a Douglas DC-4 / C-54A of Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux (TAI) ( aircraft registration F-BELB ) was flown four minutes after take-off from Bangui Airport, 16 kilometers south of it in higher terrain. The machine was supposed to bring 50 Senegalese soldiers to Dar es Salaam ( Tanganyika ). Of the 56 inmates, 46 were killed. The causes of the accident were inadequate map information, ignoring the topographical conditions, too low a rate of climb and the resulting controlled flight into terrain .
- On July 4, 2002, a mixed cargo and passenger flight from N'Djamena to Brazzaville was carried out on behalf of Prestige Airlines with a Boeing 707-123B of the Rwandan New Gomair . Due to technical problems - the landing gear could not be retracted - the crew returned to Bangui to perform an emergency landing there. After the engines suffered a burst of flames, the plane finally crashed two kilometers from the airport. Of the 21 passengers and 9 crew members, only the flight engineer and one passenger survived (see also the accident involving a Boeing 707 operated by Prestige Airlines ) .
Web links
- Airport data in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- Airport data. In: flightstats.com. Retrieved August 20, 2010 .
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
- Airport. In: AirNav. Retrieved August 20, 2010 .
- Airport data. In: The Airport Guide. Retrieved August 20, 2010 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Aéroport Bangui M'poko: bientôt la grande mutation? . In: JournalDeBangui.com (Afrique Nouvelle) . October 11, 2012. Archived from the original on January 13, 2013. Retrieved April 10, 2015. ()
- ^ Johannes Dieterich: Schlachtfeld für alle Frankfurter Rundschau, November 26, 2013, accessed on April 10, 2015
- ↑ Stranded at Bangui Airport: The Refugee Crisis in Central African Republic (PHOTOS) thedailybeast.com, 2014/05/25
- ↑ Airport data on World Aero Data ( English, as of 2006 )
- ^ Air-Britain Archive: Casualty compendium part 51 (English), December 1993, pp. 93/104.
- ^ Journal Officiel de la République Française, December 27, 1950, p.3314: ACCIDENT D'AVIATION DE BANGUI , (French), accessed on August 18, 2017.
- ^ Accident report DC-4 F-BELB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 18, 2017.
- ↑ Accident Report B-707 9XR-IS , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on September 19 of 2019.