Tidjikja Airport

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Tidjikja Airport
Summary
Airport typePublic
OperatorGovernment
Serves Tidjikja, Mauritania
Elevation  AMSL 1,342 ft / 409 m
Coordinates 18°34′12″N011°25′24″W / 18.57000°N 11.42333°W / 18.57000; -11.42333
Map
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Airplane silhouette.svg
TIY
Location within Mauritania
Tidjikja Airport
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
mft
07/251,6005,249Asphalt
Source: DAFIF [1] [2]

Tidjikja Airport( IATA : TIY, ICAO : GQND) is an airport serving Tidjikja, the capital of the Tagant region of central Mauritania.

On 1 July 1994, Air Mauritanie Flight 625 crashed near the airport. All four crew and 76 of the 89 passengers were killed in the crash, the deadliest in Mauritanian history. [3] [4]

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References

  1. Airport information for GQND [usurped] from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
  2. Airport information for TIY at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  3. "Fokker F28 Fellowship 4000 5T-CLF Tidjikja Airport (TIY)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
  4. "Air Mauretanie crashes in sandstorm". Flight International : 10. 13–19 July 1994. Archived from the original on 27 December 2016.