Benghazi airport
| Benghazi-Benina airport مطار بنينة الدولي |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | HLLB |
| IATA code | BEN |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 132 m (433 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 19 km east of Benghazi |
| Runways | |
| 15R / 33L | 3576 m × 45 m asphalt |
| 15L / 33R | 3576 m × 45 m asphalt |
The airport Benghazi-Benina ( English Benina International Airport , Arabic مطار بنينة الدولي, DMG Maṭār Banīna ad-duwalī ) is an airport in Benghazi in Libya .
location
The airport is located near the city of Benina , about 19 km east of Benghazi.
history
During the uprising in Libya on March 4, 2011, an ammunition depot exploded near the airport in Ar-Rajmah . According to Al Jazeera, 17 people are said to have died. It was unclear whether the cause was an accident, an act of sabotage, or an air strike.
In early September 2014, supporters of the Ansar al-Sharia militia captured the airport in skirmishes with government troops. 10 professional soldiers of the Libyan National Army died , and the supporters of Ansar Al-Sharia got hold of several Libyan Airlines aircraft .
As a result of the unstable situation in Libya, which also led to unrest in Benghazi, the airport was temporarily closed. The city of Benghazi was hit by several bomb attacks.
Airfield features
The tower (TWR) sends and receives on the frequency : 118.1 MHz . The airport has various navigation aids. The non-directional radio beacon (NDB) transmits on the frequency: 342 kHz with the identifier: BNA . The rotating radio beacon (VOR) transmits on frequency : 117.4 MHz with the identification: BNA . A distance measuring equipment (DME) is present.
Incidents
From 1950 to December 2018 there were 9 total write-offs of aircraft at Benghazi Airport and in the vicinity. In 4 of them 100 people were killed. Extracts:
- On August 9, 1958, a Central African Airways Vickers Viscount 748D ( aircraft registration VP-YNE ) from Wadi Halfa (Sudan) flew 9 kilometers southeast of Benghazi Airport (Libya) in hilly terrain. It is possible that the pilots who had started the flight 18 hours earlier in Salisbury (Rhodesia) and had already made other stopovers in Ndola, Entebbe and Khartoum played a role. In the accident, 36 of the 54 occupants were killed.
- In July 1971 (exact date not yet available) crashed a Douglas DC-3 of the Belgian International Air Services (OO-SBC) irreparably damaged at the airport Benghazi and was. Nothing is known about personal injury.
- On December 2, 1977, a Tupolev Tu-154A of Balkan Bulgarian Airlines (LZ-BTN) leased to Libyan Arab Airlines crashed in thick fog while attempting to land at Benghazi airport ( Libya ) and shattered. Of the 159 passengers on board, 59 did not survive the accident. The plane coming from Jeddah was on a Hajj flight. The crew did not succeed in finding the alternative airport in Al-Baida . Due to a lack of fuel , there was an unsuccessful emergency landing in which the aircraft was destroyed. The pilots had not taken into account that the Egyptian airspace was closed to Libyan aircraft as a result of a war, so that only very low fuel reserves were available when approaching Benghazi (see also the flight accident of a Tupolev Tu-154 of Libyan Arab Airlines ) .
- The airport was bombed by the Libyan Air Force during the bloody protests against dictator Muammar Gaddafi . The air traffic with Benghazi was already set due to the very tense security situation before.
- In 2014, the airport had to be temporarily closed in the wake of political unrest in Libya. The airport's operations almost collapsed during the military conflict following the fall of dictator Muammar Gaddafi. There were shootings on the airport premises and in March 2014 a bomb exploded on a runway. As a result of this situation, EU representatives described the security situation at Benghazi Airport as “a nightmare”. In the spring of 2014, the largest airlines stopped their flights with Benghazi. [1]
Web links
- Airport data in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- Airport data in flightstats.com (English)
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
- Airport details In The Airport Guide
Individual evidence
- ^ Gaddafi forces bomb arms store in Benghazi rebels. In: Reuters.com. Retrieved March 5, 2011 .
- ↑ Missing jetliners 'may be used in September 11-style attacks'. (No longer available online.) In: Yahoo . Archived from the original on October 1, 2014 ; Retrieved September 3, 2014 . 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.
- ↑ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft mbH: Battle for the airport: Dozens of soldiers killed in Benghazi . In: derStandard.at . ( derstandard.at [accessed on May 12, 2017]).
- ↑ Airport data on World Aero Data ( English, as of 2006 )
- ↑ List of accidents at Benghazi-Benina International Airport , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 28, 2018.
- ↑ Accident report Viscount 700 VP-YNE , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 28, 2018.
- ^ Accident report DC-3 OO-SBC , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 26, 2019.
- ^ Accident report Tu-154 LZ-BTN , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 28, 2018.
- ↑ Gaddafi Air Force bombs airport . In: https://www.hna.de . March 17, 2011 ( hna.de [accessed on May 12, 2017]).
