Dire Dawa Airport
Dire Dawa International Airport, is an international airport serving Dire Dawa, a city in eastern Ethiopia. It is located northwest of the city centre.
Facilities
The airport is located at an elevation of above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 15/33, with an asphalt surface measuring.Accidents and incidents
- On 27 August 1981, Douglas C-47B ET-AGX of RRC Air Services was written off when the port undercarriage collapsed on landing.
- On 9 January 2020, an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-700 registered ET-ALN operating flight ET363 was on approach to the airport, but flew through a swarm of desert locusts that obscured visibility from the cockpit. The crew depressurized the aircraft and manually cleaned the windscreens before attempting a second approach, but were faced with the same problem. After a second depressurization and manual cleaning, the flight diverted to Addis Ababa, its origin airport.