Hargeisa International Airport
| Hargeisa Egal International Airport | |||
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IATA: HGA – ICAO: HCMH
 HGA
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| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner | Somaliland Civil Aviation & Air Transport Ministry | ||
| Location | Hargeisa | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 4,423 ft / 1,348 m | ||
| Coordinates | 09°31′05.40″N 44°05′19.53″E / 9.518167°N 44.0887583°ECoordinates: 09°31′05.40″N 44°05′19.53″E / 9.518167°N 44.0887583°E | ||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 06/24 | 8,000 | 2,438 | Paved Asphalt (no ILS) |
Hargeisa Egal International Airport (IATA: HGA, ICAO: HCMH) (Somali: Madaarka Hargeysa ee Calaamiga) is an international airport in the city of Hargeisa in Somaliland, a self-declared republic that is internationally recognized as an autonomous region of Somalia.[1] Hargeisa is Somalia's second largest city and Somaliland's capital and largest city.
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[edit] Overview
Originally a small facility built during the colonial period, the former Hargeisa International Airport was expanded and modernized in the 1980s by the Siad Barre administration so as to accommodate larger aircraft and offer more flight destinations.[2]
During the events leading up to the Somali Civil War in the early 1990s, the airport's infrastructure was significantly damaged. However, the facility was gradually rehabilitated over the next several years.
The airport was later re-named to Egal International Airport after the veteran politician Muhammad Haji Ibrahim Egal. Egal served as Somalia's Prime Minister in the early 1960s during the country's post-independence civilian administration, before later becoming the Somaliland region's second President.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Daallo Airlines | Addis Ababa, Djibouti, Mogadishu-Aden Adde, Mogadishu-K50, Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta, Dubai |
| Jubba Airways | Bosaso, Djibouti, Galkacyo, Jeddah, Mogadishu-Aden Adde |
[edit] Accidents and incidents
| Date | Location | Aircraft | Tail number | Aircraft damage | Fatalities | Description | Refs |
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| 28 June 1989 |  Hargeisa |
Fokker F-27 | 6O-SAZ | W/O | 30/30 | A Somali Airlines Fokker F-27 bound for Mogadishu crashed approximately ten minutes after taking off from Hargeisa International Airport. All twenty-four passengers and six crew died in the crash. | [3] |
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Somaliland’s Quest for International Recognition and the HBM-SSC Factor
- ^ Economist Intelligence Unit (Great Britain), Country report: Uganda, Ethiopia, Somalia, Djibouti, (The Unit: 1986), p.43.
- ^ ASN Aircraft accident Fokker F-27 Friendship 600RF 6O-SAZ Hargeisa:
[edit] External links
- Airport information for HCMH at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
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