Aden Adde International Airport

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Aden-Adde International Airport
IATA: MGQ – ICAO: HCCM
Summary
Airport type		Joint (Civil and Military)
Coordinates		02°00′49″N 45°18′17″E / 2.01361, 45.30472
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
	9,901	3,018	Paved

Aden-Adde International Airport (IATA: MGQ, ICAO: HCCM), (formerly Mogadishu International Airport), is the international airport for Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. It is named after Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, the first President of Somalia.^[1] The Somali civil war and the Ethiopian invasion have caused continual disruptions to the airport operations.

1 History
2 Airlines and destinations
3 See also
4 References

[edit] History

Mogadishu's airport was the site where the Landshut Hijacking was ended on October 18, 1977.

After reopening, African Express Airways was the first international airline to land at Mogadishu International Airport on August 3, 2006. The flight had departed from Nairobi.^[2].

On June 8, 2007 the Transitional Federal Government announced that the airport would be renamed for the first president of Somalia, Aden Abdullah Osman Daar, who died in Nairobi on June 8, 2007.