Moorea Airfield
| Aéroport de Moorea | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | NTTM |
| IATA code | MOZ |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 5 m (16 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 7.5 km northeast of Afareaitu |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1967 |
| operator | DAC POLYNESIE FRANCAISE |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Passengers | 83,213 (2016) |
| Air freight | 0 t (2016) |
| Flight movements |
2,434 (2016) |
| Start-and runway | |
| 12/30 | 1180 m × 20 m asphalt |
The Aéroport de Moorea ( IATA : MOZ , ICAO : NTTM ) is the airport on the island of Moorea in French Polynesia .
The closest airport is the international airport on the neighboring island of Tahiti , which is only a 7-minute flight away.
Air Tahiti and WanAir operate regularly between the two airports.
Incidents
On August 9, 2007, a crashed De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter of Air Moorea ( air vehicle registration number F-OIQI ) shortly after taking off from Moorea Airport into the sea. The cause of the accident was the wear-related tear in a control rope used to operate the elevators . All 20 occupants were killed in the crash.
Web links
- Aeronautical chart for Moorea Airport on SkyVector.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Statistiques annuelles Aéroport de Moorea. In: aeroport.fr. Union des Aéroports Français (UAF), accessed August 15, 2017 (French).
- ↑ eAIP PAC P (section AD-2.NTTM). In: sia.aviation-civile.gouv.fr. Service de l'Information Aéronautique (SIA) de la Direction des Services de la Navigation Aérienne (DSNA) de la Direction Générale de l'Aviation Civile (DGAC), July 20, 2017, archived from the original on August 15, 2017 ; accessed on August 15, 2017 (French; English).
- ^ Accident report DHC-6 F-OIQI , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 16, 2018.
