Houari Boumedienne Airport

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Houari Boumedienne Airport serves Algiers, the capital of Algeria. It is named after Houari Boumedienne.

In 2004, the airport served 3,332,578 passengers.

Incidents

On August 28, 1992, a bomb went off at the airport, an incident in which nine people died and one hundred and twenty-eight were injured. Shortly after, several people were arrested in connection with the bombing, including Hossein Abderrahim, a member of the Islamic FIS political party. He was executed in 1993. In 2002, Abdelghani Ait Haddad, sentenced to death in absentia, attempted to take refuge in Britain after residing in France for nine years. There was some controversy surrounding his extradition, as the courts of the United Kingdom had just ruled that people facing the death penalty could not be extradited without assurances that they would not face the death penalty.

On December 24, 1994 an Air France Airbus A300, flight 8969 bound for Paris, was seized by four Islamic terrorists during take-off preparations; three passengers were killed before the plane departed from Houari Boumedienne Airport. In Marseille a special operations team of the French military stormed the aircraft and killed all four hijackers, although they injured twenty-five passengers during the operation.

Airlines

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