Zalingei Airport

Zalingei Airport
IATA: ZLX ICAO: HSZA
Summary
Serves	Zalingei, Central Darfur, Sudan
Location	Sudan
Elevation AMSL	2,953 ft / 900 m
Coordinates	12°56′40″N 023°33′47″E
Map
ZLX Location of the airport in Sudan
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 04L/22R 1,600 5,249
Sources: GCM,[1] STV[2]

Zalingei Airport (IATA: ZLX, ICAO: HSZA) is an airport serving the city of Zalingei in Central Darfur, Sudan.

Accidents and incidents

• On 11 November 2010, an Antonov An-24 of Tarco Airlines on a flight from Khartoum crashed and caught fire on the runway on landing. Two of the 44 people on board were killed.[3]

References

1. Airport information for ZLX at Great Circle Mapper.
2. Airport information for Zalingei Airport at Transport Search website.
3. Hradecky, Simon (11 November 2010). "Accident: Tarco Airlines AN24 at Zalingei on Nov 11th 2010, gear damage on landing, broke up and burst into flames". The Aviation Herald. Retrieved 20 July 2019.