Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto Quatro de Fevereiro) (IATA: LAD, ICAO: FNLU) is located in Luanda, a city in the Luanda Province and the capital of Angola. Quatro de Fevereiro is Portuguese for February 4th, a national holiday in Angola marking the start of the armed struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime on 4 February 1961.
In 2009, about 1.8 million passengers were counted.
The airport resides at an ele...
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Quatro de Fevereiro International Airport (Portuguese: Aeroporto Quatro de Fevereiro) (IATA: LAD, ICAO: FNLU) is located in Luanda, a city in the Luanda Province and the capital of Angola. Quatro de Fevereiro is Portuguese for February 4th, a national holiday in Angola marking the start of the armed struggle against the Portuguese colonial regime on 4 February 1961.
In 2009, about 1.8 million passengers were counted.
The airport resides at an elevation of 243 feet (74 m) above mean sea level. It has two asphalt paved runways: 05/23 is 3,716 by 45 metres (12,192 × 148 ft) and 07/25 is 2,600 by 60 metres (8,530 × 197 ft).
On 12 February 2000, a Transafrik cargo Boeing 727 crashed upon landing on runway 23. Due to high winds gusting to between 50 and 80 knots, the aircraft had executed a missed approach, and upon the landing flare of the second attempt, witnesses saw the right wing touch the ground.
On May 25, 2003, a Boeing 727-223 with the registration number N844AA, which had been...
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