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Pointe Noire Agostinho Neto International Airport
Pointe Noire Agostinho Neto International Airport
	IATA: PNR; ICAO: FCPP PNRLocation of Airport in Republic of the Congo;
Summary
Serves	Pointe-Noire
Location	Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo
Hub for	Equaflight; Trans Air Congo;
Elevation AMSL	55 ft / 17 m
Coordinates	04°48′48″S 011°53′09″E / 4.81333°S 11.88583°E
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Antonio Agostinho Neto International Airport (IATA: PNR, ICAO: FCPP), is an airport located in Pointe-Noire, Republic of the Congo. It is one of two international airports in the country, the other being Brazzaville Maya-Maya Airport.

The airport was inaugurated in 1934; a new passenger terminal opened in 2006.

Airlines	Destinations
Air Côte d’Ivoire	Abidjan, Libreville ^[1]
Air France	Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Air Mali	Abidjan, Bamako
Benin Golf Air	Cotonou
CEIBA Intercontinental	Libreville, Malabo
Equatorial Congo Airlines operated by PrivatAir	Brazzaville
Equaflight	Brazzaville, Luanda, Port-Gentil
Ethiopian Airlines	Addis Ababa
Interair South Africa	Cotonou, Johannesburg-OR Tambo
Lufthansa operated by PrivatAir	Frankfurt
RegionAir	Douala, Malabo, Port-Gentil, Port Harcourt
Royal Air Maroc	Brazzaville, Casablanca
South African Airways	Cotonou, Johannesburg-OR Tambo
Trans Air Congo	Brazzaville, Cotonou, Douala, Libreville
Westair Benin	Brazzaville, Cotonou, Kinshasa-N'Djili^[2]

Airlines	Destinations
Air France Cargo operated by Martinair Cargo	Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Avient Aviation	Liège, Sharjah
Ethiopian Airlines Cargo	Addis Ababa
Sky Gabon	Libreville

On 4 June 1969, a Douglas DC-3 of the Direcção de Exploração dos Transportes Aéreos was hijacked on a domestic flight from N'Zeto airport to Soyo Airport, Angola. The aircraft landed at Pointe Noire.^[3]
On 11 March 1994, Aéro-Service Swearingen Merlin TN-ADP was written off in a landing accident when the crew neglected to lower the undercarriage.^[4]
On 10 May 2007, Tenir Air Ilyushin Il-76TD EX-093 was destroyed in a fire whilst being loaded for a cargo fire.^[5]
On 15 September 2007, Veteran Airline Antonov An-12B UR-CEN was damaged beyond economic repair in a fire which occurred when the engines were being started.^[6]
On 25 January 2008, Canadian Airways Congo Boeing 727-247 9L-LEF was damaged beyond economic repair when it was struck on the ground by Aéro-Service Antonov An-12BP EK-11660 which suffered a brake failure whilst taxying. The An-12 was also damaged beyond economic repair.^[7]^[8]
On 10 November 2008, Veteran Airline Antonov An-12 UR-PLV suffered an in-flight fire. A safe landing was made at Pointe Noire but the aircraft was subsequently destroyed by fire.^[9]
On 21 March 2011, Trans Air Congo Antonov An-12 TN-AGK crashed on approach to Pointe Noire airport. All four crew were killed, as well as five illegal passengers and a number of people on the ground.^[10]

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 ==Airlines and destinations==
 {{Airport-dest-list
+|[[Air Côte d’Ivoire]]| [[Port Bouet Airport|Abidjan]], [[Libreville International Airport|Libreville]] <ref>[http://www.theafricanaviationtribune.com/2013/02/cote-divoire-air-cote-divoire-announces.html Air Côte d’Ivoire start ABJ-LBV-PNR service from February 2013]</ref>
 |[[Air France]]| [[Paris-Charles de Gaulle]]
 |[[Air Mali (2005)|Air Mali]]| [[Port Bouet Airport|Abidjan]], [[Bamako-Sénou International Airport|Bamako]]