Tangier-Boukhalef Airport

Tangier-Boukalef Airport مطار طنجة ابن بطوطة
Characteristics
ICAO code	GMTT
IATA code	TNG
Coordinates	35 ° 43 '37 "  N , 5 ° 55' 1"  W Coordinates: 35 ° 43 '37 "  N , 5 ° 55' 1"  W.
Height above MSL	19 m (62  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	14 km southwest of Tangier
Basic data
opening	1958
operator	Office National Des Aéroports (ONDA)
surface	4.7 hectares
Terminals	2
Passengers	849,882 (2011)
Air freight	612 t (2007)
Flight movements	6119 (2007)
Capacity ( PAX per year)	450,000
Start-and runway
10/28	3500 m × 45 m asphalt

The Tangier-Boukhalef ( IATA code TNG , ICAO code GMTT , Arabic مطار طنجة ابن بطوطة, French Aeroport Tanger Ibn Batouta ) is the international airport of the city of Tangier in Morocco . It is located around 14 kilometers southwest of the city.

Furnishing

The airport has a 3500 m long and 45 m wide asphalt runway with the name 10/28. An older 2000 m long run is closed. Seven jets can be parked. Tanger-Boukhalef has the longest Moroccan runway with Casablanca Airport . Tangier Airport is suitable for all types of aircraft, including the Boeing 747-400 used by Royal Air Maroc . Flight operations run 24 hours a day.

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Iberia offers connections from German-speaking countries via Madrid , Vueling via Barcelona and TAP Portugal via Lisbon . Air Arabia Maroc and z. Sometimes Royal Air Maroc also flies from Tangier to the most important metropolises in Europe , including London , Paris , Amsterdam and Brussels . Ryanair flies weekly to Tangier from Bergamo , Brussels-Charleroi , Madrid , Marseille , Weeze , Paris-Beauvais-Tillé , Seville and Valencia and Eurowings from Cologne / Bonn (only in the summer season). There are also several seasonal flights from u. a. easyJet , TUIfly Belgium and Transavia .

modernization

The airport was completed in 2008 and renamed Tangier - Ibn Battouta Airport. The airport includes a runway and a state-of-the-art terminal, which, however, has no passenger boarding bridges . Due to the size of the new terminal, the annual capacity is estimated at around 1.5 million passengers per year.

Incidents

• On March 31, 1965, came at a Convair CV-440 of the Spanish Iberia ( air vehicle registration EC-ATH ) on a flight from Malaga to Tangier Airport 18 kilometers west of the destination airport for unknown reasons to stall and crash into the sea. Of the 53 occupants, only three surviving passengers could be rescued from the sea.

• On December 22, 1973, a Caravelle VI-N of the Belgian Sobelair (OO-SRD) , which was leased by Royal Air Maroc , was approaching Tangier airport in the dark and rain near the city of Tétouan in the Mellaline mountain in the Rif mountains flown. The pilots came off course to the east when approaching runway 28. At 10:10 p.m. the machine collided at a height of 701 meters with the Mellaline mountain in the Rif Mountains near the city of Tétouan.

• On November 23, 1988, a Vickers Viscount 807 operated by Gibraltar Airways (G-BBVH) had an accident while landing at Tangier Airport. The plane coming from Gibraltar Airport, which is only 70 kilometers away , slipped after touching down to the left of the runway and over a shallow canal, causing irreparable damage. All 78 occupants, 4 crew members and 74 passengers survived the crash landing. The landing was carried out during a heavy rain shower with a tail wind of around 18 knots.

Passenger numbers

1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
274.353	286.705	290,594	284.160	268,829	256.149	259.466	262,693	292,599	374,692

Source: Statistiques de l'Aéroport de Tanger

Web links

• Airport website from operator ONDA

Individual evidence

1. ^ Tangier Airport Presentation. National Airports authority -ONDA-, accessed February 15, 2013 . 
2. ↑ Office National Des Aérports (French)
3. ↑ ^{a b} World Aero Data (English)
4. ↑ Photo of the new airport terminal  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
5. ^ Accident report CV-440 EC-ATH , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 12, 2018.
6. ↑ Air-Britain Archive: Casualty compendium part 96 (English), March 2005, p. 45.
7. ^ Accident report Caravelle VI-N OO-SRD , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 1, 2020.
8. ^ Accident report Viscount 807 G-BBVH , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on March 1, 2020.
9. ↑ Statistiques ( French ) ONDA. Archived from the original on March 8, 2007. Retrieved April 8, 2019.