Noumerate Airport

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IATA: GHA - ICAO: DAUG
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		[1]
Serves		Ghardaïa
Elevation AMSL		1512 ft (463 m)
Coordinates		3°49′0″N, 32°23′0″E
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
01/19	10,171	3,100	Asphalt
13/31	1,512	1,400	Asphalt

Noumerate Airport (IATA: GHA, ICAO: DAUG), also known as Noumerate International Airport, is an airport near Ghardaïa, Algeria.

Contents 1 Terminal Project 2 Incidents & Accidents 3 Airlines 3.1 Domestic 3.2 International 4 External links

[edit] Terminal Project

The terminal, with an annual capacity of 500,000 passengers, is often considered as outdated and under-equipped.^{[citation needed]}

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.

[edit] Incidents & Accidents

28 January 2004 as 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.

[edit] Airlines

[edit] Domestic

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

[edit] International

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

[edit] External links

• EGSA-Alger