Bandundu Airport
IATA: FDU – ICAO: FZBO
Summary
Location		Bandundu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Elevation AMSL		1053 ft / 321 m
Coordinates		03°18′41″S 017°22′54″E / 3.31139°S 17.38167°E / -3.31139; 17.38167
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
	1380	4528	Unpaved

Bandundu Airport (IATA: FDU, ICAO: FZBO) is an airport in Bandundu, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Contents 1 Airlines and destinations 2 Accidents and incidents 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Cargo Bull Aviation
Malila Airlift	Kinshasa

[edit] Accidents and incidents

Two occurrences are reported to have occurred on 17 July 2007 at Bandundu. The reports may refer to the same occurrence with factual errors:

• In one report, a Let-410UVP, tail number 9Q-CIM of Cargo Bull Aviation suffered a bird strike and crashed with no injuries but aircraft written off.^[1]

• In the other report an Antonov (either an An-24 or An-32 that had stopped en route from Kinshasa N'Dolo Airport to Nioki Airport lost its number 1 engine during initial climb and crashed 8 km from Bandundu with substantial damage but no injuries.^[2] Another report has this occurring the next day with a minor injury to an Austrian pilot.^[3] Another identifies the operator as Malift Air, the date as 18 July, the failure as an engine explosion during landing, and the aircraft destroyed.^[4]Other sources include ^[5][6]

[edit] References

1. ^ Aviation Safety Net re Let
2. ^ Aviation Safety Net re Antonov
3. ^ JACDEC - News - July 2007
4. ^ Air Safety Week
5. ^ (in French)
6. ^ Radio Okapi (in French)

[edit] External links

• Accident history for FDU at Aviation Safety Network
• Airport information for FZBO at Great Circle Mapper.
• Airport information for FZBO at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.

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