Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport

Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport (IATA: HAH, ICAO: FMCH) (French: Aéroport international Moroni Prince Saïd Ibrahim, Arabic: مطار الأمير سعيد إبراهيم الدولي, AIMPSI) is an international airport serving Moroni in Comoros. It is named after Prince Saïd Ibrahim. It is located north of the village of Hahaya.

Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport Moroni Hahaya International Airport
Air Tanzania B737 at the airport
IATA: HAH ICAO: FMCH
Summary
Airport type	Public
Serves	Moroni
Location	Hahaya, Comoros
Hub for	Comores Aviation
Elevation AMSL	28 m / 92 ft
Coordinates	11°32′12″S 43°16′17″E
Map
HAH Location of airport in Comoros Show map of Comoros HAH HAH (Indian Ocean) Show map of Indian Ocean
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 02/20 2,900 9,514 Asphalt

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Air Austral	Saint-Denis de la Réunion
Air Tanzania	Dar es Salaam
Egyptair	Cairo, Dar es Salaam[1]
Ethiopian Airlines	Addis Ababa[2]
Ewa Air	Dzaoudzi
Kenya Airways	Nairobi–Jomo Kenyatta
Precision Air	Anjouan, Dar es Salaam
Turkish Airlines1	Seasonal: Istanbul[3]

Notes

^1 : Turkish Airlines's flight from Moroni to Istanbul stops in Seychelles, but the airline does not have fifth freedom rights on the SEZ – HAH sector.

Accidents and incidents

• On 23 November 1996, Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, a Boeing 767-200ER flying from Addis Ababa to Abidjan with several stopovers was hijacked over Ethiopia by three Ethiopians seeking asylum in Australia. The plane crash-landed in the water three hours later when it ran out of fuel. 125 of the 175 passengers and crew were killed, including the three hijackers. The pilot's initial decision to land at the airport was thwarted due to the fuel starvation.
• On 30 June 2009, Yemenia Flight 626, flying from Yemen to Moroni crashed into the Indian Ocean while on final approach to the airport. 152 out of the 153 people on board were killed.^[4]
• On 27 November 2012 an Int'Air Îles Embraer EMB 120ER Brasilia (registration number D6-HUA) was underway from Moroni to Anjouan (both in Comoros Islands) on a charter flight with 25 passengers and 4 crew, when after taking off from Moroni's Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport it lost height, and while attempting to return to the airport, waterlanded 200 meters off the coast, about 5 km north of the airport. Local fishermen rescued everybody on board. There were only minor injuries.^[5]

References

1. "EGYPTAIR Adds Comores Service late-Feb 2022".
2. "Ethiopian Airlines adds Comores operation from Nov 2016". Retrieved 7 September 2017.
3. "Turkish Airlines adds seasonal Comoros service in S18". Retrieved 10 May 2018.
4. Thorpe (2009). The Pearson Concise General Knowledge Manual 2010 (New ed.). Pearson Education India. pp. 146–. ISBN 978-81-317-2766-9.
5. Simon Hradecky. "Accident: Inter Iles E120 near Moroni on Nov 27th 2012, engine trouble, ditched in the Ocean". Aviation Herald. Retrieved 27 November 2012.

External links

Media related to Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport at Wikimedia Commons

• AIP Data
• Airport chart
• Accident history for HAH at Aviation Safety Network
• Airport information for FMCH at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
• Current weather for FMCH at NOAA/NWS