Airport in Bandundu, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Bandundu Airport (IATA: FDU, ICAO: FZBO) (French: Aéroport de Bandundu) is an inactive airport, which used to serve Bandundu, capital of the Kwilu Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The Bandundu non-directional beacon (Ident: BAN) is located on the field.[3]
Accidents and incidents
Two occurrences are reported to have occurred on 17 July 2007 at Bandundu. The reports may refer to the same occurrence with factual errors:
- In one report, a Let-410UVP, tail number 9Q-CIM of Cargo Bull Aviation suffered a bird strike and crashed with no injuries but aircraft written off.[4]
- In the other report an Antonov (either an An-24 or An-32) that had stopped en route from Kinshasa N'Dolo Airport to Nioki Airport lost its number 1 engine during initial climb and crashed 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from Bandundu with substantial damage but no injuries.[5] Another report has this occurring the next day with a minor injury to an Austrian pilot.[6] Another identifies the operator as Malift Air, the date as 18 July, the failure as an engine explosion during landing, and the aircraft destroyed.[7][8]
In 2010, a Let-410 of Filair crashed near the airfield.
