Bangui M'Poko International Airport
Bangui M'Poko International Airport | |
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Characteristics | |
ICAO code | FEFF |
IATA code | GFA |
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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.
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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.