Quatro de Fevereiro Airport
Encyclopedia
Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport is located in Luanda
, a city in the Luanda Province and the capital
of Angola
. Quatro de Fevereiro is Portuguese for February 4th, a national holiday in Angola marking the start of the armed struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime on 4 February 1961.
In 2009, about 1.8 million passengers were counted.
of 243 feet (74 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt
paved runway
s: 05/23 is 3716 by 45 m (12,191.6 by 147.6 ) and 07/25 is 2600 by 60 m (8,530.2 by 196.9 ).
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, a Boeing 727-223 with the registration number N844AA
, which had been parked at the airport for over a year, was stolen in mysterious circumstances.
On 27 June 2009, a British Airways
Boeing 777-200ER
G-RAES was damaged after a collision with another aircraft while it was parked.
On 31 January 2010, Guicango Yakovlev Yak-40
D2-FES suffered the collapse of all landing gears on landing after a flight from Cabinda
.
Luanda
Luanda, formerly named São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda, is the capital and largest city of Angola. Located on Angola's coast with the Atlantic Ocean, Luanda is both Angola's chief seaport and its administrative center. It has a population of at least 5 million...
, a city in the Luanda Province and the capital
Capital City
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of Angola
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola , is a country in south-central Africa bordered by Namibia on the south, the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the north, and Zambia on the east; its west coast is on the Atlantic Ocean with Luanda as its capital city...
. Quatro de Fevereiro is Portuguese for February 4th, a national holiday in Angola marking the start of the armed struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime on 4 February 1961.
In 2009, about 1.8 million passengers were counted.
Facilities
The airport resides at an elevationElevation
The elevation of a geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point, most commonly a reference geoid, a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface ....
of 243 feet (74 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt
Asphalt
Asphalt or , also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid that is present in most crude petroleums and in some natural deposits, it is a substance classed as a pitch...
paved runway
Runway
According to ICAO a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and take-off of aircraft." Runways may be a man-made surface or a natural surface .- Orientation and dimensions :Runways are named by a number between 01 and 36, which is generally one tenth...
s: 05/23 is 3716 by 45 m (12,191.6 by 147.6 ) and 07/25 is 2600 by 60 m (8,530.2 by 196.9 ).
Airlines and destinations
Charter
Incidents and accidents
On 12 February 2000, a Transafrik cargo Boeing 727Boeing 727
The Boeing 727 is a mid-size, narrow-body, three-engine, T-tailed commercial jet airliner, manufactured by Boeing. The Boeing 727 first flew in 1963, and for over a decade more were built per year than any other jet airliner. When production ended in 1984 a total of 1,832 aircraft had been produced...
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, a Boeing 727-223 with the registration number N844AA
N844AA
On May 25, 2003, a Boeing 727-223 registered as N844AA was stolen from Quatro de Fevereiro Airport in Luanda, Angola. Its disappearance prompted a world-wide search by the FBI and the CIA.- The 727-aircraft :...
, which had been parked at the airport for over a year, was stolen in mysterious circumstances.
On 27 June 2009, a British Airways
British Airways
British Airways is the flag carrier airline of the United Kingdom, based in Waterside, near its main hub at London Heathrow Airport. British Airways is the largest airline in the UK based on fleet size, international flights and international destinations...
Boeing 777-200ER
Boeing 777
The Boeing 777 is a long-range, wide-body twin-engine jet airliner manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. It is the world's largest twinjet and is commonly referred to as the "Triple Seven". The aircraft has seating for over 300 passengers and has a range from , depending on model...
G-RAES was damaged after a collision with another aircraft while it was parked.
On 31 January 2010, Guicango Yakovlev Yak-40
Yakovlev Yak-40
The Yakovlev Yak-40 is a small, three-engined airliner that is often called the first regional jet transport aircraft...
D2-FES suffered the collapse of all landing gears on landing after a flight from Cabinda
Cabinda Airport
Cabinda Airport is an airport serving Cabinda, a city in the Cabinda province, an exclave of Angola.- Facilities :The airport resides at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 01/19 with an asphalt surface measuring ....
.