Zalingei Airport is an

airport An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport. Airports usually consists of a landing area, which comprises an aerially accessible open space including at least one operationally active surface ...

serving the city of

Zalingei Zalingei or Zalinjay is a town in Western Sudan, and is capital of the state of Central Darfur. As of 2009 it had an estimated population of 27,258. The town is home to the University of Zalingei. Transports The city is served by the Zalingei ...

Central Darfur Central Darfur State () is one of the states of Sudan, and one of five comprising the Darfur region. It was created in January 2012 as a result of the ongoing peace process for the wider Darfur region. The state capital is Zalingei. The state w ...

, Sudan.

Accidents and incidents

* On 11 November 2010, an

Antonov An-24 The Antonov An-24 (Russian/Ukrainian: Антонов Ан-24) (NATO reporting name: Coke) is a 44-seat twin turboprop transport/passenger aircraft designed in 1957 in the Soviet Union by the Antonov Design Bureau and manufactured by Kyiv, Irku ...

of Tarco Airlines on a flight from Khartoum crashed and caught fire on the runway on landing. Two of the 44 people on board were killed.

References

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