Nouakchott International Airport

Nouakchott International Airport
Nouakchott International Airport; مطار نواكشوط الدولي
	IATA: none; ICAO: GQNN;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner	Najah for Major Works (NMW)[1]
Location	Nouakchott, Mauritania
Elevation AMSL	7 ft / 2 m
Coordinates	18°05′43″N 015°56′58″W
Map
	GQNN Location of airport in Mauritania
Runways
	Source: DAFIF[2][3]

Nouakchott International Airport (ICAO: GQNN) (Arabic: مطار نواكشوط الدولي‎) was an airport located in Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania. It closed in June 2016 upon the opening of Nouakchott–Oumtounsy International Airport, 25 kilometres (16 mi) north of the city. Until late 2010, the airport served as hub of Mauritania Airways. Mauritania Airlines International was based at the airport until the closure.

Accidents and incidents

On August 26, 2010, a British Boeing 757 carrying 108 passengers was forced to land at the airport after developing a fire in one of its engines. The plane was flying from Freetown to London when its pilot discovered the fire, and immediately contacted the Nouakchott control tower to be allowed to land. There were no casualties; upon the plane's landing the fire was extinguished by airport firefighting staff.[4]
On 12 July 2012, a Harbin Y-12 aircraft belonging to the military crashed while attempting to take off from Nouakchott International Airport, killing all seven people on board. The plane had been chartered by Canadian gold miner Kinross Gold to carry gold from its Tasiast Gold Mine. The cause was not immediately known, but witnesses said the aircraft caught fire before it went down.[5]

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