Maya–Maya Airport is the

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Brazzaville Brazzaville () is the capital (political), capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo. Administratively, it is a Departments of the Republic of the Congo, department and a Communes of the Republic of the Congo, commune. Constituting t ...

, 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.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

Cargo

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

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, killing all 156 passengers and 14 crew members on board. This incident marked the deadliest air disaster involving a French-operated

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, in terms of loss of life for nearly 20 years until

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on June 2009. * 23 November 1996: Hijackers forced Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, bound from Mumbai and Addis Ababa to

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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

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

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, one police officer on board the aircraft, and 26 people on the ground were killed, and 14 people on the ground were injured.

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