Lubumbashi International Airport is an airport in Lubumbashi

Lubumbashi

Lubumbashi is the second largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, second only to the nation's capital Kinshasa, and the hub of the southeastern part of the country. The copper-mining city serves as the capital of the relatively prosperous Katanga Province, lying near the Zambian border...

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Airlines and destinations

History

Lubumbashi International Airport was founded in colonial times as the Elisabethville Airport.
It was also known as Luano airport.

This airport played a high-profile role during the Katanga war. After it was seized by the United Nations Force in the Congo

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 (ONUC) troops, the airport was used as a base against the secessionist government.

Accidents and incidents

• In December 2001, Air Katanga Douglas C-53-DO
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    ZS-OJD was written off in a landing accident at Lubumbashi International Airport after a delivery flight that originated in South Africa
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