Tidjikja Airport
Tidjikja Airport | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Government | ||||||||||
| Serves | Tidjikja, Mauritania | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,342 ft / 409 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 18°34′12″N 011°25′24″W / 18.57000°N 11.42333°W | ||||||||||
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  TIY Location within Mauritania | |||||||||||
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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]
References
- ^ Airport information for GQND[usurped] from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
- ^ Airport information for TIY at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
- ^ "Fokker F28 Fellowship 4000 5T-CLF Tidjikja Airport (TIY)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
- ^ "Air Mauretanie crashes in sandstorm". Flight International: 10. 13–19 July 1994. Archived from the original on 27 December 2016.
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