Bordeaux airport

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Aéroport de Bordeaux-Mérignac
Base aérienne 106 Bordeaux-Mérignac
Bordeaux Airport Logo.svg
Aéroport Bx Mérignac.JPG
Characteristics
ICAO code LFBD
IATA code BOD
Coordinates

44 ° 49 '42 "  N , 0 ° 42' 56"  W Coordinates: 44 ° 49 '42 "  N , 0 ° 42' 56"  W.
Height above MSL 49 m (161  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 10 km west of Bordeaux
Street D 1563
1 km toA630
Basic data
opening 1917
Passengers 7,692,726 (2019)
Air freight 12,723 t (2019)
Flight
movements 		66,031 (2019)
Runways
05/23 3100 m × 45 m asphalt
11/29 2415 m × 45 m asphalt

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The Bordeaux Airport ( IATA code BOD , ICAO code LFBD , French Aéroport de Bordeaux - Mérignac ) is an international airport ten kilometers west of Bordeaux ( Gironde ). The airport also serves as a military airfield for the French Air Force , which designate the base as Base aérienne 106 Bordeaux-Mérignac .

The airport, founded in 1917, consists of two check-in halls and two runways at a height of 49 meters above sea level. d. M. , with only one currently in use. 7.69 million passengers were handled in 2019. This makes the airport eighth in France for passenger handling.

The airport operator is the Bordeaux Chamber of Commerce (Chambre de commerce et d'industrie de Bordeaux).

history

In 1910, the first air sports event took place on rented grounds in Mérignac, and the Aérodrome de Beau-Désert was built there . In the years 1917/1918, Bordeaux became a branch of the US Army and the airfield housed an American military hospital . After the end of the First World War , the airfield was expanded, but it never achieved the importance of Toulouse-Blagnac in the interwar period . In the mid-1930s, the airfield was expanded again and became a location for the aviation industry.

The far more important development, which began in 1928, was the planned use as a military airfield ; the operational area was quadrupled in the years up to 1935. The expansion, both of the military and the civilian area, continued until June 6, 1940, on which day the airfield was the target of a German air raid. After France's defeat a few weeks later, the Fw 200 , destined for naval warfare , arrived at the end of the month . In 1943/44, He 177s of Kampfgeschwader 40 were stationed here, with the Ju 88s above them to protect German submarines . During these years Mérignac was again targeted by air strikes, this time by Allied bombers. The US Air Force operated Airfield Y-37 , the Allied code name from December 1944 to July 1945, but without having air units stationed there.

The Armée de l'air stationed in October 1945 with Halifax -equipped 21 bomber squadron on the court, the Post took Ju 52 in December of the year the night airmail flights back on and Air France took Bordeaux on in its route network.

In the following years the airport, which was badly damaged in the war, was built from scratch with a clear separation of the various areas, the military in the south, civil aviation in the east and the aviation industry, among others. a. Dassault , in the north.

After the 21st bomber squadron was disbanded in 1949, the military area of ​​the airfield became a US air base from 1951 , initially home to B-26C bombers. However, this was replaced in the following year by sea rescue planes and helicopters, which in turn were only stationed here until 1953. Since France continued to operate civil flights, the airfield remained a "bone of contention" between the US and the French, so that the air base, on which only a few transport aircraft were stationed from now on, was closed again in 1958.

As a result, the Armée de l'air once again stationed a bomber squadron in Bordeaux and in November 1959 a new handling terminal opened on the other side.

Military use

The base currently houses (2012):

  • ET 0/43 "Médoc", a transport group with TBM-700A

There are also a large number of non-flying formations.

Civil use

Mainly intra-European flights are offered from Bordeaux. From German-speaking countries there are connections from Basel, Berlin, Frankfurt, Cologne, Munich, Hamburg, Vienna and Zurich. Further connections exist via Lyon , Paris-Orly and Paris CDG with Air France or via Amsterdam Schiphol with KLM .

Incidents

  • On February 7, 1953, a Douglas DC-4 / C-54A of the Union Aéromaritime de Transport (UAT) (code F-BFGR ) crashed while approaching Bordeaux Airport 5.5 kilometers northeast of the field. The machine was on the flight from Abidjan via Casablanca to Paris. When visibility was very poor, the plane sank too early and collided with a grove. Overtiredness of the crew due to excessive previous flight duty is named as a decisive factor in the accident report. Nine of the 21 people on board were killed.
  • On September 24, 1959, a Douglas DC-7 C of Transports Aériens Intercontinentaux (TAI) (registration F-BIAP ) collided with treetops near Bordeaux Airport on the flight to Bamako about 500 meters behind the end of the runway and crashed. The start took place at the power limit of the DC-7. There were 54 fatalities among the 65 inmates.
  • On December 21, 1987, an Air Littoral- operated Embraer EMB 120 (registration number F-GEGH ) was flown into the ground on an Air France flight when approaching Bordeaux Airport five kilometers northeast of the field. All 16 inmates were killed. The crew had difficulties with the approach in bad weather, the machine finally got too low and collided with trees. It was a controlled flight into terrain .

See also

Web links

Commons : Bordeaux - Mérignac Airport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Base aérienne 106 Bordeaux-Mérignac  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Bulletin statistiquetrafic aérien commercial - Année 2019. In: ecologique-solidaire.gouv.fr. Ministère de la Transition écologique et solidaire, accessed on May 24, 2020 (French).
  2. ^ Accident report Viking 1 G-AHPD , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 19, 2016.
  3. ^ Accident report DC-4 F-BFGR , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 18, 2017.
  4. ^ Accident report DC-7C F-BIAP , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 18, 2017.
  5. ^ Accident report EMB-120 F-GEGH , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 12, 2017.