Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport

Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport Aéroport de Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne
IATA: CFE – ICAO: LFLC CFE Location of airport in France
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		CCI de Clermont-Ferrand / Issoire
Location		Clermont-Ferrand
Elevation AMSL		1,090 ft / 332 m
Coordinates		45°47′09″N 003°09′45″E / 45.78583°N 3.1625°E / 45.78583; 3.1625Coordinates: 45°47′09″N 003°09′45″E / 45.78583°N 3.1625°E / 45.78583; 3.1625
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
08/26	9,892	3,015	Asphalt

Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport (French: Aéroport de Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne) (IATA: CFE, ICAO: LFLC) is an airport serving the French city of Clermont-Ferrand. It is located 6.7 km east of the city, in Aulnat, a commune of the département of Puy-de-Dôme.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air France	Paris-Orly
Air France operated by Brit Air	Paris-Orly
Air France operated by Régional	Amsterdam (Ends March 2012], Lyon, Nantes, Nice, Paris-Charles de Gaulle Seasonal: Ajaccio, Bastia
Flybe	Seasonal: Southampton
Iberia operated by Air Nostrum	Madrid [begins 9 January 2012]

Final approach to the airport

Accidents and incidents

• On 28 December 1971, Vickers Viscount F-BOEA of Air Inter was damaged beyond economic repair when it departed the runway on a training flight during a simulated failure of #4 engine.^[1]
• On 27 October 1972, Air Inter Flight 696, Vickers Viscount 724 F-BMCH, en route from Lyon to Clermont-Ferrand, crashed 4 km west of Noirétable during bad weather; 60 on board died, 8 survived. The subsequent investigation determined that the accident was caused by the flight crew's failure to notice that their plane's radio compass had shifted 180 degrees, most likely the result of electrical discharges in the rainstorm they were flying through; this blocked the signals emitted by Clermont-Ferrand's non-directional beacon (NDB), which was instructing the crew to fly a holding pattern prior to receiving clearance to descend to 3,600 ft.^[2]

References

1. ^ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19711228-1. Retrieved 8 October 2009. 
2. ^ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19721027-0. Retrieved 6 April 2010. 

Sources

• French Aeronautical Information Publication for LFLC (PDF) - CLERMONT FERRAND AUVERGNE

External links

• Airport website
• Clermont-Ferrand Auvergne Airport (official site - corporate) (French)
• Aéroport de Clermont-Ferrand - Auvergne (Union des Aéroports Français) (French)
• Airport information for LFLC at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.