Accra airport
| Kotoka International Airport | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | DGAA |
| IATA code | ACC |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 62 m (203 ft ) |
| Basic data | |
| Passengers | 2,547,544 (2014) |
| Air freight | 49,256 t (2006) |
| Flight movements |
14,680 (2006) |
| Start-and runway | |
| 03/21 | 3403 m × 61 m asphalt |
The Kotoka International Airport is the international airport of Accra and the largest of Ghana . It was named after Emmanuel Kotoka . The airport was the main base of the former Ghanaian airlines Ghana Airways and Ghana International Airlines . It is also the home airport of Antrak Air and one of the bases of the cargo airline Aerogem Cargo .
The airport can handle aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 747-400 . In 2004 a new arrival and departure terminal opened.
A new terminal opens in 2018.
Airlines and Destinations
Flights between Accra and European destinations are no longer offered by Lufthansa , but by KLM , British Airways , Alitalia , TAP Portugal , Brussels Airlines , Iberia and Turkish Airlines . Lufthansa suspended its flights to Accra in October 2015. In the Lufthansa Group, the destination is now only served by Brussels Airlines from Brussels.
Med-View Airline operates from Accra from Lagos .
Incidents
- On June 2, 2012, an Allied Air Boeing 727-200 cargo plane with flight number DHV-3 shot over the runway and crashed into a minibus. Its ten inmates and two other people on the ground were killed. The crew of the Allied Air machine remained largely uninjured.
- On January 10, 2015 crashed Boeing 737-400F of Ethiopian Airlines (ET-AQV) while landing at the airport Accra. All three crew members survived the crash, but the machine had to be written off as a total loss.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Airport Traffic Statistics . Ghana Airports Company Limited. Archived from the original on November 27, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 15, 2012.
- ↑ Muhammad Ali Albakri: Air transport - IATA address African issues at regional aviation forum in Accra. In: Business Ghana. June 25, 2019, accessed June 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Lufthansa suspends operations… as Brussels make a re-entry ( Memento of the original from December 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in Business & Financial Times, July 15, 2015.
- ↑ Lufthansa Airlines confirms suspension of Accra operations , Ghana News, July 19, 2015.
- ↑ Accident: Allied Cargo B722 at Accra on June 2nd 2012, overran runway on landing (English) , avherald.com . Retrieved February 1, 2014.
- ↑ Cargo Plane Hits Bus in Ghana Airport Crash (English) , bbc.co.uk . June 3, 2012. Retrieved February 1, 2014.
- ^ Accident report B-737-400 ET-AQV , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on June 14, 2016.
