Timbuktu Airport

Timbuktu Airport (IATA: TOM, ICAO: GATB) is an airport in Timbuktu, Mali that opened on April 15, 1961.^[1]

Timbuktu Airport Aéroport de Tombouctou
IATA: TOM ICAO: GATB
Summary
Airport type	Public
Location	Timbuktu, Mali
Elevation AMSL	863 ft / 263 m
Coordinates	16°43′50″N 003°00′27″W
Map
TOM Location of airport in Mali
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 07/25 2,110 6,923 Asphalt

Airlines and destinations

The start of Sky Mali's service to Timbuktu in February 2021 marked the first commercial flights to the airport since the city was captured by jihadists in 2012. ^[2]

Airlines	Destinations
Sky Mali	Bamako, Mopti

Accidents and incidents

• On February 22, 1985, an Antonov An-24V (TZ-ACT) of Air Mali crashed ~3 km from here during initial climb on a flight to Mopti, killing all but 1 of the 52 occupants. The flight route was from Gao to Bamako, with Timbuktu and Mopti as stopovers. The crash was Mali's deadliest until Air Algerie Flight 5017 in 2014.^[3]

References

1. Rosberg, Carl Gustav (1964). Political Parties and National Integration in Tropical Africa. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. p. 222. ISBN 9780520002531.
2. "First commercial flight since 2012 lands in Mali's Timbuktu". Africanews. 2 February 2021. Retrieved 20 February 2021.
3. "ASN Aircraft accident Antonov An-24V TZ-ACT Tombouctou Airport (TOM)". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 2023-07-14.