Maya-Maya Airport
airport in the Republic of the Congo
Maya–Maya International Airport (IATA: BZV, ICAO: FCBB) (French: Aéroport international Maya-Maya) is an international airport serving Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo.
Facilities
In 2010, a new 3,300-metre (10,800 ft) long runway and a new terminal with three air bridges were opened. The older runway was repaired and now is used as a taxiway. A second phase of the new terminal was completed in 2013, the construction of which, valued at $160 million, was undertaken by Chinese construction firm Weihai International Economic & Technical Cooperative Co., Ltd.
The head office of the republic's air accident investigation agency, Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (BEA Congo), is on the property of the airport.
Airlines and destinations
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Accidents and incidents
On 19 September 1989, UTA Flight 772, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 (registration N54629) 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, killing all 156 passengers and 14 crew members on board. This incident marked the deadliest air disaster involving a French-operated airliner, in terms of loss of life for nearly 20 years until Air France Flight 447 in June 2009.
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.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Maya-Maya Airport” as airport in the Republic of the Congo. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as airport in the Republic of the Congo. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q644963. Authority coordinates are -4.252, 15.253. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2013, 1989 and 2009.
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