Bandundu Airport

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IATA: FDU - ICAO: FZBO
Summary
Serves Bandundu
Elevation AMSL 1063 ft (325 m)
Coordinates 04°19′36.08″S, 15°19′38.43″E
Runways
Direction Length Surface
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unpaved

Bandundu Airport is an airport in Bandundu, Democratic Republic of the Congo (IATA: FDU, ICAO: FZBO).

[edit] Charter services

[edit] Accidents and incidents

Two occurrences are reported to have occurred on 17 July 2007 at Bandundu. The reports may refer to the same occurrence with factual errors:

  • In one report, a Let-410UVP, tail number 9Q-CIM of Cargo Bull Aviation suffered a bird strike and crashed with no injuries but aircraft written off.[1]
  • In the other report an Antonov (either an An-24 or An-32 that had stopped enroute from Kinshasa N'Dolo Airport to Nioki Airport lost its number 1 engine during initial climb and crashed 8 km from Bandundu with substantial damage but no injuries.[2] Another report has this occurring the next day with a minor injury to an Austrian pilot.[3] Another identifies the operator as Malift Air, the date as 18 July, the failure as an engine explosion during landing, and the aircraft destroyed.[4]Other sources include [5][6]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Aviation Safety Net re Let
  2. ^ Aviation Safety Net re Antonov
  3. ^ JACDEC - News - July 2007
  4. ^ Air Safety Week
  5. ^ (in French)
  6. ^ [http://www.radiookapi.net/index.php?i=53&l=0&c=0&a=13931&da=&of=187&s=&m=2&k=0&r=all&sc=2 Radio Okapi (in French)
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