Houari Boumediene Airport ( Arabic مطار هواري بومدين الدولي , Fr. Aéroport d'Alger Houari Boumediene ) ( IATA : ALG , ICAO : DAAG ), also known as Algeria International Airport , or Algeria Airport , is located at 16, 9 km (11 miles) southeast of the capital of Algeria - the city of Algeria . The airport is named after the former president of the country, Houari Boumedien .
| Houari Boumediene Airport | ||||||||||
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| Arab. مطار هواري بومدين الدولي fr Aéroport d'Alger Houari Boumediene | ||||||||||
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| IATA : ALG - ICAO : DAAG | ||||||||||
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| Type of | civil | |||||||||
| A country |  Algeria | |||||||||
| Location | Algeria | |||||||||
| opening date | 1924 | |||||||||
| Hub for | • Air Algérie • Tassili Airlines | |||||||||
| NUM height | 25 m (82 ft ) | |||||||||
| Timezone | UTC +1 | |||||||||
| Site | elmatar.com | |||||||||
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| Annual passenger traffic | 7 500 000 | |||||||||
suburb of Algeria , where the airport is located, was formerly known as the White House ( Fr. Maison Blanche ), therefore, in the literature on the Algerian War of Independence , the airport is also referred to as the White House Airport ( Fr.Aéroport d'Alger-Maison Blanche ).
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History
The airport was built in 1924 and was named the White House Airport . On November 8, 1942, it was one of the main goals of the Eastern Task Force of the British - American Operation Torch that began in the North African campaign during World War II . The resistance of Vichy France forces defending the airport,
Terminals
The international terminal (terminal 1) is able to provide passenger traffic to 6 million people per year. It was opened on July 5, 2006 by Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika .
The internal terminal (terminal 2), reconstructed in 2007 , provides a capacity of up to 2.5 million passengers annually.
Air crashes and incidents
- On July 23, 1968, three members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine captured a Boeing-707 with 48 passengers and crew aboard and hijacked it at Algeria's airport. As a result, all 48 hostages were released.
- On January 20, 1981, after a diplomatic crisis, 52 hostages from the American Embassy in Iran were taken from Tehran to Algeria Airport.
- August 26, 1992 a bomb blast at the airport killed 9 people, 128 were injured. In connection with the terrorist attack, several suspects were arrested, including Hossein Abderrahim, a member of the Islamic Rescue Foundation . In 1993, he was executed. In 2002, Abdelgani Ayt Haddad, sentenced in absentia to death, after 9 years of residence in France, was granted asylum in the UK .
- On December 24, 1994, an Air France A300 Airbus A300 was captured by 4 terrorists from the Armed Islamic Group and sent to Paris . On the way to Paris, the plane was forced to make refueling in Marseille , where he was stormed by GIGN fighters. As a result of the assault, all 4 terrorists were killed, all 218 people on board survived, 25 people were injured.
- On July 24, 2014, an Air Algérie McDonnell Douglas MD-83 plane flew from airport to Algiers airport 50 km (31 miles) after takeoff crashed near the Mali city of . Of the 112 passengers and 6 crew members representing 15 different nationalities, no one survived.