Noumérat – Moufdi Zakaria Airport (French: Aéroport de Ghardaïa / Noumérat – Moufdi Zakaria, Arabic: مطار غرداية - نوميرات مفدي زكريا [1] 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.[1] The airport is named for Moufdi Zakaria, the author of Kassaman, the Algerian national anthem.
Noumérat – Moufdi Zakaria Airport Aéroport de Ghardaïa / Noumérat – Moufdi Zakaria مطار غرداية - نوميرات مفدي زكريا | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | EGSA Alger | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Ghardaïa, Algeria | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 461 m / 1,512 ft | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 32°23′0″N 3°47′50″E / 32.38333°N 3.79722°E | ||||||||||||||
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Terminal project
editThe terminal, with an annual capacity of 500,000 passengers, is often considered as outdated and under-equipped.[citation needed]
Airlines and destinations
edit| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Algérie | Adrar, Algiers, Constantine, Illizi, Oran, Tamanrasset |
Statistics
edit| Passengers | Change from previous year | Aircraft operations | Change from previous year | Cargo (metric tons) |
Change from previous year | |
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| 2005 | 47,217 |  36.70% |
3,140 | 34.45% |
51 | 78.30%
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| 2006 | 40,699 | 13.80% |
2,330 | 25.80% |
106 |  107.84%
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| 2007 | 36,226 | 10.99% |
2,121 | 8.97% |
34 | 67.92%
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| 2008 | 44,762 | 23.56% |
2,352 | 10.89% |
129 | 279.41%
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| 2009 | 44,493 | 0.60% |
2,542 | 8.08% |
57 | 55.81%
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| 2010 | 45,794 | 2.92% |
2,436 | 4.17% |
601 | 954.39%
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| Source: Airports Council International. World Airport Traffic Reports (Years 2005,[5] 2006,[6] 2007,[7] 2009[8] and 2010) | ||||||
Incidents
edit- 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. 2 fatalities.
- On 6 February 2010 at 04:48, a Ghana International Airlines Boeing 757 flying from Accra, Ghana to London Gatwick, United Kingdom with 125 passengers and 8 crew made a precautionary landing at Moufdi Zakaria Airport following indications of possible irregularities with the hydraulics system. A relief aircraft was organised to convey passengers to London while the aircraft was inspected and returned to service by a technical team.[9]
- On March 1, 2021 at 20:00, Air Algérie flight AH6200, an ATR 72, suffered a nose landing gear issue on landing at Ghardaïa Airport, Algeria. During the approach to Ghardaïa after a flight from Algiers, the nose landing gear failed to deploy after the flight crew selected the undercarriage down. The flight crew failed to resolve the issue and performed a nosegear-up landing with fire trucks and ambulances standing by.[10]
References
edit- ^ a b c (in French) AIP and Chart for Aéroport de Ghardaïa / Noumérat – Moufdi Zakaria (DAUG) from Service d'Information Aéronautique – Algerie
- ^ (in French) Aéroport de Ghardaïa : Noumérat "Moufdi Zakaria" from Établissement de Gestion de Services Aéroportuaires d'Alger (EGSA Alger)
- ^ "Airport information for DAUG". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF. - ^ "DAUG @ aerobaticsweb.org". Landings.com. Retrieved 31 July 2013.
- ^ Airport Council International's 2005 World Airport Traffic Report
- ^ Airport Council International's 2006 World Airport Traffic Report
- ^ Airport Council International Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine's 2007 World Airport Traffic Report
- ^ Airport Council International Archived 11 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine's 2009 World Airport Traffic Report
- ^ "Incident: Astraeus B752 over Algeria on Feb 6th 2010, hydraulics failure". avherald.com. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
- ^ "ASN Aircraft accident ATR 72-500 (72-212A) 7T-VUK Ghardaïa-Noumérat Airport (GHA)".