Kisangani-Bangoka Airport
| Kisangani-Bangoka Airport | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | FZIC |
| IATA code | FKI |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 432 m (1417 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 11 km east of Kisangani |
| Street | N3 , N4 |
| Basic data | |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Start-and runway | |
| 13/31 | 3500 m × 45 m asphalt |
The Kisangani-Bangoka Airport ( French Aéroport International de Kisangani , IATA : FKI ; ICAO : FZIC ) is the international airport of the city of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . It is about eleven kilometers east of the city.
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The airport is connected to domestic destinations by the airline Congo Airways . The foreign airline Ethiopian Airlines is the only one to offer connections to Kisangani.
Incidents
- On November 21, 1976, a Pacific Western Airlines (C-FPWX) L-100-20 Hercules crashed near Kisangani , Zaire . The pilots were looking for a way to make an emergency landing at Kisangani-Bangoka Airport in poor visibility when their plane collided with trees and termite mounds . Five out of six people died on board. There was not enough kerosene on board to return to another airport (see also the Pacific Western Airlines accident at Kisangani ) .
- On July 8, 2011, a 45-year-old Boeing 727-022 of Hewa Bora Airways (later flyCongo) (9Q-COP) coming from Kinshasa had an accident while approaching Kisangani-Bangoka Airport (Democratic Republic of the Congo). 77 of the 115 people on board were killed (see Hewa Bora Airways flight 952 ) . As a result, Hewa Bora Airways' flight license was suspended on July 13th, but it soon continued to fly as flyCongo.
Web links
- Aeronautical chart for Bangoka International Airport on SkyVector.com
- Aéroport International de Kisangani. In: stanleyville.be. Jean-Luc Ernst, accessed on March 10, 2018 (French).
Individual evidence
- ↑ accident report L-100-20, C-FPWX Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on 6 April of 2019.
- ^ Accident report B-727-100 9Q-COP , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 20, 2018.
- ↑ Radio Okapi - Suspension de la license d'exploitation de Hewa Bora: les conséquences (French)
Airports in the Democratic Republic of the Congo