• On 24 July 1971, a
Douglas C-47A (6V-AAP) of
Air Ivoire crashed into a hill 67 seconds after take-off from runway 24 at night. The aircraft was operating a scheduled passenger flight. All six occupants were killed. • On 31 May 1981, a
Dassault Falcon 20C (7T-VRE) of the
Algerian government crashed 8 km (5 miles) from here on approach, killing 3 of the 6 occupants. The plane was on an official state flight, carrying foreign minister
Mohamed Seddick Benyahia. Benyahia survived, but was killed the following year in a shootdown. • On 30 June 1996, a
Boeing 707-369C (5X-JON) of
Air Afrique leased from
DAS Air Cargo became unstable shortly after landing due to a sudden burst of rain and veered off the runway, striking a bunker and detaching the right wing. All 4 occupants survived; the plane was written off. • In October 2007 (day unknown), an
Ilyushin Il-76TD (5A-DNQ) of
Jamahiriya Air Transport sustained serious damage on landing when the nose gear collapsed. The plane was later repaired. • On 14 June 2017, a
Beechcraft 200 Super King Air (TZ-DDG) of Malian Aero Company suffered a landing accident after returning from a
cloud-seeding operation over
Mopti at 14:05. The plane came to rest on the right side of the runway with substantial propeller damage and was subsequently written off. The sole occupant survived. ==References==