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Maya-Maya Airport 
IATA: BZV – ICAO: FCBB Location of Airport in Republic of the Congo
BZVSummary Airport type Joint (Civil and Military) Location Brazzaville Elevation AMSL 1,048 ft / 319 m Coordinates 04°15′06.12″S 15°15′10.91″E / 4.2517°S 15.2530306°E Runways Direction Length Surface ft m 05/23 10,827 3,300 Asphalt Maya-Maya Airport (IATA: BZV, ICAO: FCBB) is an airport located in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo.
In 2004, the airport served 447,699 passengers.
Contents
Airlines and destinations
Airlines Destinations Air France Paris-Charles de Gaulle Air Ivoire Abidjan, Cotonou, Douala, Ouagadougou, Yaoundé Air Mali Bamako Air Nigeria Cotonou, Douala, Lagos Benin Golf Air Cotonou, Pointe-Noire Camair-Co Douala Ethiopian Airlines Addis Ababa, Kinshasa Ethiopian operated by ASKY Airlines Cotonou, Kinshasa, Libreville, Lomé Equatorial Congo Airlines Pointe Noire Equaflight Pointe-Noire Hewa Bora Airways Kinshasa Interair South Africa Bamako, Cotonou, Johannesburg Kenya Airways Nairobi Phoebus Apollo Aviation Cotonou, Johannesburg, Libreville, Pointe-Noire Royal Air Maroc Casablanca, Pointe-Noire RwandAir Kigali, Libreville TAAG Angola Airlines Bangui, Douala, Luanda, Pointe-Noire Toumai Air Chad Bangui, Douala, N'Djamena, Libreville, Lomé Trans Air Congo Cotonou, Douala, Pointe-Noire Accidents and incidents
- On 19 September 1989 UTA flight 772, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 (registration N54629)[1] operating the Brazzaville-N'Djamena-Paris CDG sector, was bombed 46 minutes after take-off from N'Djamena causing the aircraft to crash while flying over Niger. All 156 passengers and 14 crew members on board perished.[1][2] For nearly 20 years, this incident marked the deadliest air disaster involving a French-operated airliner, in terms of loss of life. As of June 2009, it ranks as the second-deadliest (see Air France flight 447).
- 23 November 1996: Hijackers forced Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, bound from Mumbai and Addis Ababa to Abidjan through many stops (including Brazzaville), to crash into the Indian Ocean.
- On 26 August 2009, an Antonov An-12 of Aero-Fret (registered TN-AIA) crashed on approach. The flight had originated from Pointe Noire Airport. The five Ukrainian crew and one Congolese passenger were killed.[3]
References
- ^ UTA 772: The forgotten flight
- ^ McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 N54629
- ^ "Crash: Aero-Fret AN12 at Nganga Lingolo on Aug 26th 2009, impacted ground in a cemetery". Aviation Herald. http://www.avherald.com/h?article=41ecf6fe&opt=0. Retrieved 26 August 2009.
External links
- Accident history for BZV at Aviation Safety Network
- Airport information for FCBB at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
- Current weather for FCBB at NOAA/NWS
- Airport information for FCBB at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
Categories:- Airports in the Republic of the Congo
- Airports in Central Africa
- Buildings and structures in Brazzaville
- Central Africa airport stubs
- Republic of the Congo geography stubs
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