Aguenar

Aguenar - Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport Aéroport de Tamanrasset / Aguenar - Hadj Bey Akhamok
IATA: TMR – ICAO: DAAT TMR Location of airport in Algeria
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		EGSA Alger
Serves		Tamanrasset, Algeria
Elevation AMSL		1,377 m / 4,518 ft
Coordinates		22°48′40″N 005°27′03″E / 22.81111°N 5.45083°E / 22.81111; 5.45083
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
02/20	3,600	11,800	Asphalt
08/26	3,100	10,170	Asphalt
Sources: AIP[1], EGSA Alger[2], DAFIF[3]

Aguenar – Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport (French: Aéroport de Tamanrasset / Aguenar - Hadj Bey Akhamok^[1]) (IATA: TMR, ICAO: DAAT), also known as Aguenar Airport or Tamanrasset Airport, is an airport serving Tamanrasset, a city in the Tamanrasset Province of southern Algeria. It is located 3.6 nautical miles (6.7 km) northwest of the city.^[1]

The airport is currently an alternative landing site for NASA's Space Shuttle.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Aigle Azur	Paris-Orly
Air Algérie[4]	Algiers, Constantine, Djanet, El Golea, Ghardaia, In Salah, Illizi, Oran, Ouargla, Paris-Orly
Tassili Airlines	Algiers

Incidents and accidents

• On 8 February 1978, Douglas C-49J N189UM of Aero Service Corporation was damaged beyond repair in a landing accident at Tamanrasset.^[5]

• On March 6, 2003 Air Algérie Flight 6289 crashed at 3:45 p.m. local time (1445 GMT). The flight was leaving Tamanrasset bound for Algiers with the co-pilot acting as pilot-in-command. At a height of 78 feet and a speed of 158 kts, the No. 1 engine suffered a turbine failure. The captain took control. The co-pilot asked if she should raise the gear, but the captain did not respond. The Boeing 737-200 lost speed, stalled, and broke up on rocky terrain about 1600 metres past the runway. The accident was caused by the loss of an engine during a critical phase of flight, the non-retraction of the landing gear after the engine failure, and the Captain taking over control of the airplane before having clearly identified the problem. There were 102 fatalities and one survivor.

References

1. ^ ^{a b c} (French) AIP and Chart for Aéroport de Tamanrasset / Aguenar - Hadj Bey Akhamok (DAAT) from Service d'Information Aéronautique - Algérie
2. ^ (French) Aéroport de Tamanrasset : Aguenar Hadj Bey Akhamokh from Établissement de Gestion de Services Aéroportuaires d'Alger (EGSA Alger)
3. ^ Airport information for DAAT at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
4. ^ "Air Algérie Route Map". http://www.airalgerie.dz/routemap.jsp?lang=. Retrieved January 21, 2011. 
5. ^ "N189UM Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19780208-0. Retrieved 1 August 2010. 

External links

• Algeria plane crash kills 102 at CNN.com
• Official accident report from the Algerian Ministry of Transport (in English)
• Accident history for TMR at Aviation Safety Network
• Current weather for DAAT at NOAA/NWS