Quatro de Fevereiro Airport

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Quatro de Fevereiro Airport
IATA: LAD – ICAO: FNLU
Summary
Airport type		Military/Public
Operator		Military of Angola
Location		Luanda
Elevation AMSL		243 ft / 74 m
Coordinates		08°51′30″S 13°13′52″E / -8.85833, 13.23111
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
05/23	12,190	3,716	Asphalt
07/25	8,530	2,600	Asphalt

Quatro de Fevereiro Airport (4 February Airport) (IATA: LAD, ICAO: FNLU) is located in Luanda, the capital city of Angola.

In 2004, the airport served 742,629 passengers.

[edit] Incidents and accidents

On 12 February 2000, a Transafrik cargo Boeing 727 crashed upon landing on runway 23. Due to high winds gusting to between 50 and 80 knots, the aircraft had executed a missed approach, and upon the landing flare of the second attempt, witnesses saw the right wing touch the ground.

On May 25, 2003, Boeing 727-223 registration number N844AA, which had been parked at the airport for over a year, was stolen in mysterious circumstances.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

• Aeroflot (Moscow-Sheremetyevo, Jeddah)
• Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
• Air Gemini (M'Banza Congo, Benguela, Cabinda, Dundo, Huambo, Lubango, Lucapa, Luena, Malange, Menongue, Namibe, Ondjiva, Saurimo, Soyo, N'Zagi)
• Air Namibia (Windhoek)
• British Airways (London-Heathrow)
• Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
• China Southern Airlines (Guangzhou) [begins July 1, 2008, pending government approval]
• Cubana (Havana) [seasonal]
• Diexim Expresso
• Ethiopian Airlines (Addis Ababa)
• Hainan Airlines (Beijing, Dubai)
• KLM (Amsterdam) [begins late 2008, pending government approval]^{[citation needed]}
• Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
• Sonair (Benguela, Cabinda, Catumbela, Huambo, Lubango, Ondjiva, Soyo)
• South African Airways (Johannesburg)
• TAAG Angola Airlines (Accra, Addis Ababa, Bangui, Beijing, Brazzaville, Cabinda, Catumbela, Dubai, Dundo, Harare, Huambo, Johannesburg, Kinshasa, Lisbon, Lubango, Luena, Lusaka, Malanje, M'Banza Congo, Menongue, N'djamena, Namibe, Ondjiva, Paris, Pointe Noire, Rio de Janeiro-Galeao, Sal, São Tomé, Soyo, Salvador da Bahia, Saurimo, Windhoek)
• TAP Portugal (Lisbon)

[edit] External links

• More information on the missing 727
• Airport information for FNLU at World Aero Data