Maya-Maya Airport

Maya–Maya Airport is the international airport of Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of Congo.

Facilities

In 2010, a new long runway and a new terminal with three air bridges were opened. The older runway was repaired and now is used as a taxiway. A second phase of the new terminal was completed in 2013, the construction of which, valued at $160 million, was undertaken by Chinese construction firm Weihai International Economic & Technical Cooperative Co., Ltd.

On 19 September 1989, UTA Flight 772, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 operating the Brazzaville-N'Djamena-Paris CDG sector, was bombed 46 minutes after take-off from N'Djamena causing the aircraft to crash while flying over Niger, killing all 156 passengers and 14 crew members on board. This incident marked the deadliest air disaster involving a French-operated airliner, in terms of loss of life for nearly 20 years until Air France Flight 447 on June 2009.
23 November 1996: Hijackers forced Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, bound from Mumbai and Addis Ababa to Abidjan through many stops, to crash into the Indian Ocean.
On 26 August 2009, an Antonov An-12 of Aero-Fret crashed on approach. The flight had originated from Pointe Noire Airport. The five Ukrainian crew and one Congolese passenger were killed.
On 30 November 2012, an Aéro-Service Ilyushin Il-76T on a cargo flight from Pointe-Noire to Brazzaville crashed during landing short of runway 5L at Maya–Maya Airport in Brazzaville in bad weather, in a residential area. All six crew members, five of them from Armenia, one police officer on board the aircraft, and 26 people on the ground were killed, and 14 people on the ground were injured.