Port Bouet Airport

Port Bouet Airport
IATA: ABJ – ICAO: DIAP ABJ Location of Airport in Cote d'Ivoire
Summary
Airport type		Military / Public
Serves		Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire
Location		Port Bouet, Côte d'Ivoire
Coordinates		5°15′41.1″N 003°55′32.8″W
Website		http://www.aeria.ci/
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
03/21	9,842	3,000	Macadam

Port Bouet Airport (IATA: ABJ, ICAO: DIAP), also known as Félix Houphouët-Boigny International Airport, is located 16 kilometres southeast of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

The airport was one of many hubs for multi-national airline Air Afrique.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Algérie	Algiers
Air Burkina	Bobo Dioulasso, Douala, N'Djamena, Niamey, Ouagadougou
Air France	Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Air Mali	Bamako, Kinshasa, Luanda, Pointe-Noire
Air Nigeria	Cotonou, Lagos, Accra
Benin Golf Air	Cotonou
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
Emirates	Accra, Dubai
Ethiopian Airlines	Addis Ababa, Ouagadougou
Ethiopian operated by ASKY Airlines	Banjul, Dakar, Lomé
Kenya Airways	Dakar, Nairobi
Middle East Airlines	Beirut
Royal Air Maroc	Casablanca
Starbow Airlines	Accra (starts on January 27)
Senegal Airlines	Cotonou, Dakar, Douala, Libreville
Tunisair	Tunis

Cargo airlines

Airlines	Destinations
El Al Cargo	Tel Aviv

Accidents and incidents

• 3 January 1987: a Varig Boeing 707-379C registration PP-VJK operating flight 797 from Abidjan to Rio de Janeiro-Galeão crashed due to a failure on engine 1 shortly after take-off. While attempting to return to the airport for an emergency landing, it crashed on a field 18 km away from Abidjan’s airport. Of the 51 passengers and crew aboard, a single passenger survived.
• 30 January 2000: Kenya Airways flight 431, crashed into the sea shortly after takeoff from Port Bouet. Of the 179 passengers and crew on board the Airbus 310, only ten persons survived.

External links

• Airport information for DIAP at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
• A-Z World Airports Online: Abidjan International Airport (ABJ/DIAP)