Dire Dawa Airport Explained
| Dire Dawa International Airport |
| Nativename: | Amharic: ድሬ ዳዋ ዓለም አቀፍ አየር ማረፊያ |
| Iata: | DIR |
| Icao: | HADR |
| Type: | Public / Military |
| Operator: | Ethiopian Airports Enterprise |
| City-Served: | Dire Dawa, Ethiopia |
| Elevation-F: | 3,829 |
| Elevation-M: | 1,167 |
| Coordinates: | 9.6244°N 41.8542°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Ethiopia |
| Pushpin Relief: | yes |
| Pushpin Mapsize: | 250 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of airport in Ethiopia |
| Pushpin Label: | HADR |
| Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
| Pushpin Mark: | Steel_pog.svg |
| Pushpin Marksize: | 11 |
| Metric-Rwy: | y |
| R1-Number: | 15/33 |
| R1-Length-M: | 2,679 |
| R1-Length-F: | 8,791 |
| R1-Surface: | Asphalt |
| Footnotes: | Sources:[1] |
Dire Dawa International Airport, is an international airport serving Dire Dawa, a city in eastern Ethiopia. It is located 5km (03miles) northwest of the city centre.[2]
Facilities
The airport is located at an elevation of 3829feet above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 15/33, with an asphalt surface measuring 2679mx45mm (8,789feetx148feetm).
Accidents and incidents
- On 27 August 1981, Douglas C-47B ET-AGX of RRC Air Services was written off when the port undercarriage collapsed on landing.[3]
- On 9 January 2020, an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-700 registered ET-ALN operating flight ET363 was on approach to the airport, but flew through a swarm of desert locusts that obscured visibility from the cockpit. The crew depressurized the aircraft and manually cleaned the windscreens before attempting a second approach, but were faced with the same problem. After a second depressurization and manual cleaning, the flight diverted to Addis Ababa, its origin airport.[4]
Notes and References
- from DAFIF (effective October 2006)
- Web site: Dire Dawa International Airport . Ethiopian Airports Enterprise . https://web.archive.org/web/20110815230116/http://www.ethiopianairports.com/DireDawaAirPort.aspx . 15 August 2011 . dead .
- Web site: ET-AGX Accident description . Aviation Safety Network . 24 July 2010.
- Web site: Hradecky . Simon . Incident: Ethiopian B737 at Dire Dawa on Jan 9th 2020, swarm of grasshoppers . The Aviation Herald . 17 January 2020.
