Tidjikja_Airport Knowpia

Tidjikja Airport
Tidjikja Airport
	IATA: TIY; ICAO: GQND;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Government
Serves	Tidjikja, Mauritania
Elevation AMSL	1,342 ft / 409 m
Coordinates	18°34′12″N 011°25′24″W / 18.57000°N 11.42333°W
Map
	TIY Location within Mauritania
Runways
	Source: DAFIF

Tidjikja Airport (IATA: TIY, ICAO: GQND) is an airport serving Tidjikja, the capital of the Tagant region of central Mauritania.

On 1 July 1994, Air Mauritanie Flight 625 crashed near the airport. All four crew and 76 of the 89 passengers were killed in the crash, the deadliest in Mauritanian history.^[3]^[4]

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^ Airport information for GQND^[usurped] from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
^ Airport information for TIY at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
^ "Fokker F28 Fellowship 4000 5T-CLF Tidjikja Airport (TIY)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 15 January 2014.
^ "Air Mauretanie crashes in sandstorm". Flight International: 10. 13–19 July 1994. Archived from the original on 27 December 2016.

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Accident history for Tidjikja Airport (TIY) at Aviation Safety Network

[1] Airport information for GQND^[usurped] from DAFIF (effective October 2006)

[2] Airport information for TIY at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).

[:0-3] "Fokker F28 Fellowship 4000 5T-CLF Tidjikja Airport (TIY)". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 15 January 2014.

[4] "Air Mauretanie crashes in sandstorm". Flight International: 10. 13–19 July 1994. Archived from the original on 27 December 2016.

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