Noumérat - Moufdi Zakaria Airport

Infobox Airport
name = nowrap|Noumérat - Moufdi Zakaria Airport
nativename = Aéroport de Ghardaïa / Noumérat - Moufdi Zakaria


IATA = GHA
ICAO = DAUG
type = Public
owner =
operator = [http://www.egsa-alger.com/ EGSA]
city-served = Ghardaïa, Algeria
location =
metric-elev = y
elevation-m = 461
elevation-f = 1512
website = [http://www.egsa-alger.com/index.php?id=aeroport-ghardaia www.egsa-alger.com/...]
metric-rwy = y
r1-number = 12/30
r1-length-m = 3,100
r1-length-f = 10,171
r1-surface = Asphalt
r2-number = 18/36
r2-length-m = 2,400
r2-length-f = 7,874
r2-surface = Asphalt
footnotes = Sources: Algerian AIP [http://www.sia-enna.dz/PDF/AIP/AD/AD2/DAUG/DAUG.pdf AIP] and [http://www.sia-enna.dz/PDF/AIP/AD/AD2/DAUG/AD.pdf Chart] from "Service d'Information Aéronautique - Algerie" fr icon] & World Aero Data [WAD|DAUG, retrieved 2007-10-02.]

Noumérat - Moufdi Zakaria Airport or "Aéroport de Ghardaïa / Noumérat - Moufdi Zakaria" airport codes|GHA|DAUG, also known as Noumerate Airport, is a public airport located 16 km (9 nm) southeast of Ghardaïa, Algeria.

Etymology

It was named after Moufdi Zakaria, the author of Kassaman, the Algerian national anthem.

Terminal project

The terminal, with an annual capacity of 500,000 passengers, is often considered as outdated and under-equipped.Fact|date=February 2007

A project to build a new international terminal has been launched. The terminal should be completed sometime during 2007, leaving the current one to Hajj flights and some peak season charters to/from Europe.

Airlines and destinations

Domestic

* Air Algerie (Algiers, Djanet, Illizi, Tamanrasset)
* Tassili Airlines (Djanet, Hassi Messaoud, Hassi R'mel)

International

* Aigle Azur (Marseille, Paris-Orly)
* Air Algerie (Jeddah [Hajj Charter] , Paris-Orly)
* Air Méditerranée (Paris-Orly)

Incidents

28 January 2004 at 21:00 the flight 7T-VIN of Tassili Airlines.The Sonatrach company chartered one of Tassili Airlines' Beechcraft 1900D planes to fly two employees from the oil fields near the Algerian Sahara town of Hassi R'Mel to Ghardaia. The Beech took off at 20:36 and arrived near Ghardaia twenty minutes later. The pilot carried out a visual approach to the field, but had to go around because another plane which had just arrived from Djanet, was still on the runway. While maneuvering for another approach, the plane contacted the ground and right wing was torn off. The five occupants survived the impact, but the co-pilot died a day later of his injuries. 2 fatalities.

References

External links

* [http://www.egsa-alger.com/index.php?id=aeroport-ghardaia "Aéroport de Ghardaia / Noumérat - Moufdi Zakaria"] (official site) fr icon
*WikiMapia|32.3817|3.7994|13
*NWS-current|DAUG
*ASN|GHA