MD-Douala International Airport (french: link=no, Aéroport international MD-Douala) is an international airport located in

Douala Douala is the largest city in Cameroon and its economic capital. It is also the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Region (Cameroon), Littoral Region. Home to Central Africa's largest port and its major international airport, Douala International Ai ...

, the largest city in

Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...

and the capital of Cameroon's Littoral Region. With its 4 terminals and an average of 1.5 million passengers and 50,000 tonnes of freight per year it is the country's busiest airport. The airport is managed and partly owned (34%) by the company Aeroport du Cameroon (ADC) which also manages all other 13 airports on Cameroonian soil.

Runway

Douala Airport has a single runway, 12/30, with a length of 2,880 m (9,448 ft). Between 1 and 21 March 2016, the runway was closed for upgrade works; all airlines switched operations to

Yaoundé Airport Yaoundé Airport is an airport in Yaoundé, the capital of Cameroon and a city in the Centre Province. It is also known as Yaoundé Ville Airport. It should not be confused with Yaoundé Nsimalen International Airport See also * Cameroon Air For ...

during that period. This formed part of a renovation plan of 20 billion CFA (

US$ The United States dollar (symbol: $; code: USD; also abbreviated US$ or U.S. Dollar, to distinguish it from other dollar-denominated currencies; referred to as the dollar, U.S. dollar, American dollar, or colloquially buck) is the official ...

36,363,636 million), financed by the French Agency of Development, which targeted a two-stage renovation: first the airport's runway, and then its terminals and interior.

Statistics

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

File:Inauguration du Dja, avion camerounais 03.jpg, Camair-Co Boeing 767-300ER taxiing at Douala. File:Inauguration du Dja, avion camerounais 02.jpg, Water salute of a Camair-Co Boeing 767-300ER. File:Inauguration du Dja, avion camerounais 01.jpg, Water salute of a Camair-Co Boeing 767-300ER. File:Avion camerounais dans les airs.jpg, Camair-Co Boeing 767-300ER taking off.

Accidents and incidents

*4 March 1962:

Caledonian Airways Flight 153 Caledonian Airways Flight 153 was a multi-leg nonscheduled passenger service from Luxembourg via Khartoum, Lorenzo Marques (nowadays Maputo), Douala and Lisbon, before heading back to Luxembourg. On 4 March 1962 a Douglas DC-7C flying the r ...

- all 111 people on board died *3 December 1995: Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701 - 71 out of 76 people on board died *5 May 2007: the

Kenya Airways Flight 507 Kenya Airways Flight 507 was a scheduled Abidjan–Douala–Nairobi passenger service, operated with a Boeing 737-800, that crashed in the initial stage of its second leg on 5 May 2007, immediately after takeoff from Douala International Airpo ...

scheduled for Abidjan - Douala - Nairobi crashed in Mbanga Pongo near Douala international airport, two minutes after it took off from the airport. Although the weather was bad, the report from the Cameroonian civil aviation authority said the pilots were to blame for the crash. There were 114 fatalities, including 37 Cameroonians, 15 Indians and one American.

References

External links

* {{authority control Airports in Cameroon Buildings and structures in Douala