Maya-Maya Airport

Maya–Maya Airport
IATA: BZV – ICAO: FCBB BZV Location of Airport in Republic of the Congo
Summary
Airport type	Joint (Civil and Military)
Serves	Brazzaville
Location	Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo
Hub for	Equatorial Congo Airlines
Elevation AMSL	1,048 ft / 319 m
Coordinates
Runways
Direction Length Surface ft m 05L/23R 10,827 3,300 Asphalt 05R/23L (used only as taxiway, no takeoffs or landings) 10,827 3,300 Asphalt

Maya–Maya Airport (IATA: BZV, ICAO: FCBB) is an airport located in Brazzaville, the capital of the Republic of the Congo.

In 2010, a new runway 3300m long (05L/23R) and a new terminal with 3 air bridges were opened. The older runway (05R/23L) was repaired and now is used as a taxiway. A second module for the new terminal was completed in 2013. Chinese construction firm Weihai International Economic & Technical Cooperative Co., Ltd. performed the $160 million in upgrades to the airport.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Côte d'Ivoire	Abidjan, Accra, Libreville
Air France	Paris-Charles de Gaulle
ASKY Airlines	Libreville, Lomé
Camair-Co	Douala, Kinshasa
Canadian Airways Congo	Impfondo, Pointe-Noire, Ouesso
Ceiba Intercontinental Airlines	Malabo
Ethiopian Airlines	Addis Ababa
Equatorial Congo Airlines	Bamako, Beirut, Cotonou, Dakar, Douala, Dubai-International, Libreville, Oyo, Pointe-Noire
Equatorial Congo Airlines operated by PrivatAir	Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Equaflight	Pointe-Noire
Interair South Africa	Cotonou, Johannesburg-OR Tambo
Kenya Airways	Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta
Mauritania Airlines International	Bamako, Cotonou, Nouakchott, Abidjan
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca, Pointe-Noire
RwandAir	Kigali, Libreville
SN Air Congo	Dolisie, Impfondo, Ouesso, Pointe-Noire
South African Airways	Johannesburg-OR Tambo
TAAG Angola Airlines	Bangui, Douala, Luanda
Trans Air Congo	Douala, Libreville, Pointe-Noire
Westair Benin	Bangui, Cotonou, Pointe-Noire

Cargo airlines

Airlines	Destinations
Avient Aviation	Liège
Ethiopian Airlines Cargo	Addis Ababa
Etihad Cargo	Abu Dhabi, Lagos
Air France Cargo	Bangui
Africa West Airlines	Lomè
Cargolux Airlines	Luxembourg

Accidents and incidents

• On 19 September 1989 UTA Flight 772, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 (registration N54629) 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. All 156 passengers and 14 crew members on board perished. For nearly 20 years, this incident marked the deadliest air disaster involving a French-operated airliner, in terms of loss of life. As of June 2009, it ranks as the second-deadliest (see Air France Flight 447).
• 23 November 1996: Hijackers forced Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, bound from Mumbai and Addis Ababa to Abidjan through many stops (including Brazzaville), to crash into the Indian Ocean.
• On 26 August 2009, an Antonov An-12 of Aero-Fret (registered TN-AIA) 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 (initially mistakenly attributed to Trans Air Congo) 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.

External links

• Accident history for BZV at Aviation Safety Network
• Airport information for FCBB at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
• Current weather for FCBB at NOAA/NWS
• Airport information for FCBB at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.