Maya-Maya Airport

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Maya–Maya Airport

Brazzaville International Airport
AMSL
1,048 ft / 319 m
Coordinates04°15′06″S 15°15′11″E / 4.25167°S 15.25306°E / -4.25167; 15.25306
Websitewww.brazzaville-airport.com
Map
BZV is located in Republic of the Congo
BZV
BZV
Location of airport in the Republic of Congo
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
05/23 3,300 10,827 Asphalt

Maya–Maya Airport (

Republic of Congo.[1]

Facilities

In 2010, a new 3,300-metre (10,800 ft) long runway and a new terminal with three

Weihai International Economic & Technical Cooperative Co., Ltd.[2]

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Libreville[3]
Libreville
Paris–Charles de Gaulle
Lomé[4]
Pointe-Noire[5]
Addis Ababa
Kenya Airways Luanda, Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta
Bamako, Cotonou, Nouakchott
Royal Air Maroc Casablanca
RwandAir Cotonou, Douala, Kigali
TAAG Angola Airlines Luanda[6]
Pointe-Noire[7]

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
Air France Cargo
 Bangui[8]
Cargolux Luxembourg
Lagos
Addis Ababa[9]

Accidents and incidents

  • On 19 September 1989 UTA Flight 772, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 (registration N54629)[10] 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.[11][12] 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
    Pointe Noire Airport. The five Ukrainian crew and one Congolese passenger were killed.[13]
  • On 30 November 2012, an
    crashed during landing short of runway 5L at Maya–Maya Airport in Brazzaville in bad weather, in a residential area.[15] All six crew members, five of them from Armenia, one police officer on board the aircraft, and 26 people on the ground were killed, and 14 people on the ground were injured.[14]

References

  1. ^ "BRAZZAVILLE / Maya - Maya AERODROME CHART - ICAO" (PDF). Brazzaville, Republic of Congo: SERVICE DE L’INFORMATION AÉRONAUTIQUE - ASECNA. 31 March 2016. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  2. ^ "Second module at Brazzaville Maya–Maya International set to become operational". Africa Aviation Tribune. 27 August 2013.
  3. ^ Schedule 2016
  4. ^ June 2016 Timetable, http://www.flyasky.com/asky/horaires/bzv
  5. ^ "Flight schedule – Canadian Airways Congo".
  6. ^ "TAAG: Route Map". Archived from the original on 21 January 2016. Retrieved 3 May 2014.
  7. ^ "Trans air Congo Flights". neonflights.com. June 2014. Archived from the original on 5 June 2014.
  8. ^ "Avient Aviation Schedule from LGG" (PDF). Retrieved 31 May 2017.[permanent dead link]
  9. ^ Airlines, Ethiopian AirlinesEthiopian. "Resource not found - Fly Ethiopian". www.ethiopianairlines.com. Archived from the original on 11 April 2014. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  10. ^ Ranter, Harro. "Photo of McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 N54629 - Aviation Safety Network". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  11. ^ "BBC NEWS - UK - UTA 772: The forgotten flight". news.bbc.co.uk. 19 August 2003. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  12. ^ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 N54629 Ténéré desert". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
  13. ^ "Crash: Aero-Fret AN12 at Nganga Lingolo on Aug 26th 2009, impacted ground in a cemetery". Aviation Herald. Retrieved 26 August 2009.
  14. ^ a b "Cargo plane crashes into houses in Congo-Brazzaville, killing 32". BNO News. 1 December 2012. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 2 December 2012.
  15. Aviation Herald
    . Retrieved 3 December 2012.

External links

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