Juba airport
| Juba airport | |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | HSSJ |
| IATA code | JUB |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 461 m (1512 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 2 km north of Juba |
| Basic data | |
| operator | Government of South Sudan |
| Start-and runway | |
| 13/31 | 2400 m × 45 m asphalt |
The Juba Airport ( english Juba International Airport ) is a commercial airport in Juba in southern Sudan . It serves as the basis for Kush Air .
It is one of only two international airports in the country and, due to its function as the airport of the capital, the most important in the country. It is located northeast of downtown Juba on the western bank of the White Nile .
In the run-up to the South Sudanese declaration of independence on July 9, 2011, the expansion of the airport began, as the previously rather insignificant city of Juba plays an important role as the capital of the new state. The transport minister Lino Makana announced that the airport will look like the Cape Town airport in South Africa in the final stage .
The expansion to an international airport has been supported since September 2012 by the Common Security and Defense Policy of the European Union , which sends up to 64 experts to provide support for 19 months as part of the EUAVSEC South Sudan mission .
Incidents
- On August 12, 1990, shortly after take-off from Juba Airport (Sudan), all four engines lost one after the other on a Lockheed L-100-30 Hercules of the US-American Southern Air Transport (SAT) ( aircraft registration number N911SJ ). When returning and making an emergency landing at the airport, the end of the runway was run over and the aircraft was irreparably damaged. All five occupants, four crew members and 1 passenger, survived.
- An accident occurred when a passenger aircraft took off from Khartoum airport on June 23, 2006. A McDonnell Douglas DC-9-83 of the Egyptian charter airline AMC Airlines (SU-BOZ) rolled over the runway end and was badly damaged. All 14 occupants survived the accident. The machine has been repaired.
- On November 4, 2015, an Antonov An-12 (registration number EY-406 ) cargo aircraft of Asia Airways registered in Tajikistan crashed around 800 meters behind the airport runway. 41 inmates and possibly people on the ground were killed.
Web links
- Airport on World Aero Data
- Airport data in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- www.flights.org.uk for airlines with destination Juba Airport
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ajuba international airport under expansion (construction work at the airport Juba), Sudan Catholic Radio
- ↑ Anja Hanisch and Tobias Pietz: Africa in Focus: Three new civil CSDP missions. (PDF; 192 kB) Center for International Peace Operations , August 9, 2012, accessed on October 3, 2012 .
- ^ Accident report L-100-30 Hercules N911SJ , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 9, 2020.
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report of the accident of June 23, 2006 in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- ↑ Many dead in plane crash in Juba
- ↑ Fatalities in plane crash in South Sudan
- ^ Accident report EY-406, Aviation Safety Network (English) , accessed on November 4, 2015
