Goma Airport
IATA: GOM – ICAO: FZNA
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Government
Serves		Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Elevation AMSL		5,089 ft / 1,551 m
Coordinates		01°40′14″S 029°14′18″E / 1.67056°S 29.23833°E / -1.67056; 29.23833
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
18/36	1,995	6,545	Asphalt
Source: DAFIF[1][2]

Goma International Airport (IATA: GOM, ICAO: FZNA) is an airport serving Goma, a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Contents 1 Airlines and destinations 2 Incidents 2.1 2002 Nyiragongo eruption 2.2 2008 crash 2.3 2009 overrun 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Uganda	Entebbe
Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation	Kinshasa, Kisangani
Hewa Bora Airways	Kinshasa, Kisangani
JetLink Express	Nairobi
RwandAir	Kigali
Wimbi Dira Airways	Kisangani

[edit] Incidents

[edit] 2002 Nyiragongo eruption

Initially built with a paved 3 km runway and a large terminal and apron, the airport has not recovered from the 2002 eruption of the volcano Nyiragongo, 14 km to the north. The airport no longer receives international flights except for freight operations run by relief agencies and the United Nations. A stream of fluid lava 200 m by 1000 m wide flowed onto the runway and through the city center as far as the lake shore, covering over the northern 1 km of the runway and isolating the terminal and apron which were only connected by taxiway to the northern end. The lava can easily be seen in satellite photographs,^[3] and aircraft can be seen using the 2 km southern section of the runway which is clear of lava. A temporary apron has been made at the side of the operational part of the runway. A Douglas DC-8 was left stranded on the terminal apron, which is now used by military and relief helicopters.

[edit] 2008 crash

On 15 April 2008, a Hewa Bora Airways DC-9 overshot the runway during an aborted takeoff and crashed into the marketplace immediately to the south of the airport, killing over 40 people.

[edit] 2009 overrun

On 19 November 2009, Compagnie Africaine d'Aviation Flight 3711, operated by McDonnell Douglas MD-82 9Q-CAB overran the runway on landing, suffering substantial damage. The overrun area was contaminated by solidified lava.^[4]

[edit] References

1. ^ Airport information for FZNA at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.. Source: DAFIF.
2. ^ Airport information for GOM at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
3. ^ Google Earth has high resolution photographs showing the affected part of the airport at coordinates -1.658, 29.237. Retrieved 3 September 2007.
4. ^ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20091119-0. Retrieved 20 November 2009. 

[edit] External links

• Accident history for GOM at Aviation Safety Network

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