Yaoundé Airport
Airport in Yaoundé, Cameroon
FKKY
Location of Yaoundé Airport in Cameroon
Direction | Length | Surface | |
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m | ft | ||
03/21 | 1,987 | 6,519 | Asphalt |
Source: DAFIF[1][2]
Yaoundé Airport (French: Aéroport de Yaoundé-Ville, IATA: YAO, ICAO: FKKY) is an airport in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon and a city in the Centre Province. It is also known as Yaoundé Ville Airport.[1][2][3] It should not be confused with Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport
Accidents and incidents
The following accidents and incidents occurred either at the airport, or involved aircraft from the airport.
- On 28 June 1989, a Cameroon Airlines Hawker Siddeley HS 748 plane from Bafoussam registered as (TJ-CCF) overshot the runway by 43 m upon landing in stormy weather at Yaounde International Airport following a scheduled flight from Douala and collided with an embankment, killing the two pilots and one of the 45 passengers on board.[4][5]
See also
- Cameroon Air Force
- List of airports in Cameroon
- Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport
References
- ^ a b "Airport information for FKKY - Yaoundé Ville". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 2019-03-05.
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: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006. Source: DAFIF. - ^ a b Airport information for YAO / FKKY at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
- ^ Accident history for YAO / FKKY - Yaoundé-Ville Airport at Aviation Safety Network
- ^ Ranter, Harro (31 October 1981). "ASN Aircraft accident British Aerospace BAe-748-435 Srs. 2B TJ-CCF Yaoundé-Ville Airport (YAO)". aviation-safety.net. Aviation Safety Network.
- ^ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident British Aerospace BAe-748-435 Srs. 2B TJ-CCF Yaoundé-Ville Airport (YAO)". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
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