Noumérat – Moufdi Zakaria Airport
airport serving Ghardaia, Algeria
Noumérat – Moufdi Zakaria Airport (French: Aéroport de Ghardaïa / Noumérat – Moufdi Zakaria, Arabic: مطار غرداية – نوميرات مفدي زكريا IATA: GHA, ICAO: DAUG), also known as Noumerate Airport, is a public airport serving Ghardaïa, the capital of the Ghardaïa Province in Algeria. It is located 8.6 nautical miles (9.9 mi; 15.9 km) southeast of the city. The airport is named for Moufdi Zakaria (1908–1977), 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The terminal, with an annual capacity of 500,000 passengers, is often considered as outdated and under-equipped.
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Incidents
On 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.
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