Kigali airport
| Kigali International Airport | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | HRYR |
| IATA code | KGL |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 1491 m (4892 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 12 km east of Kigali |
| Basic data | |
| opening | October 1, 1928 |
| operator | Rwanda Airports Authority |
| surface | 1439 ha |
| Terminals | 2 |
| Passengers | 710,000 ( 2016 ) |
| Flight movements |
119.269 |
| Employees | 6256 |
| Start-and runway | |
| 10L / 28R | 3500 m × 45 m asphalt |
The Kigali International Airport is an international commercial airport in Kigali and the main airport of Rwanda . It serves as a transit airport for Goma and Bukavu in eastern Congo . The airport is located in the suburb of Kanombe, about 12 kilometers east of central Kigali.
In 2016, the airport handled 710,000 passengers.
In 2022, the airport is to be replaced by Bugesera International Airport , which has been under construction since 2016 .
Flight connections
Kigali is the home airport of RwandAir , which flies to national and African destinations from here. In addition, other African airlines operate. Direct connections to Europe are offered by Brussels Airlines to Brussels , from RwandAir to London via Brussels and from KLM to Amsterdam . Qatar Airways offers daily direct connections to Doha .
Incidents
- On November 12, 2009 the crew of a Bombardier CRJ100 of RwandAir ( aircraft registration number 5Y-JLD ) reported technical problems after taking off from Kigali airport in the direction of Entebbe and asked to return to the airport. The aircraft landed safely and reached its assigned parking position. The master reported that the power of the engines could not be throttled and that they continued to operate at full power, whereupon the engine started moving again, accelerated, broke through some fences and a little later collided with a building. Of the ten passengers and three crew members, one passenger did not survive the accident. There was severe structural damage to the aircraft; it had to be written off (see also RwandAir flight 205 ) .
Assassination attempt in 1994
- On April 6, 1994, an aircraft of the type Dassault Falcon 50 was shot down by unknown persons during the approach. The presidents of Rwanda and Burundi , Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira , who were on board , were killed. The assassination sparked the Rwandan genocide of at least 800,000 deaths among the Tutsis and moderate Hutus from (see also shoot down the presidential plane in Rwanda on 6 April 1994 ) .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ RwandAir: RwandAir Airlines; Flyer. RwandAir, accessed October 8, 2019 .
- ^ Accident report CRJ 100 5Y-JLD , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 7, 2019.
- ↑ Rwanda's president was killed by his own people in 1994 , time online January 11, 2012