Bouaké Airport

Bouaké Airport (IATA: BYK, ICAO: DIBK) is an airport located in Bouaké, the second largest city in Côte d'Ivoire, in West Africa.

Bouaké Airport
Summary
Airport typeMilitary/Public
LocationBouaké
Elevation AMSL1,231 ft / 375 m
Coordinates7°44′20″N 5°4′25″W
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
03/21 10,827 3,300 Asphalt

Airlines and destinations
AirlinesDestinations
Air Côte d'Ivoire Abidjan, Bamako[1]

June 29, 2007 assassination attempt on Guillaume Soro

On June 29, 2007, Guillaume Soro, the prime minister of Côte d'Ivoire, was targeted by rocket and Kalashnikov fire upon his landing at the Bouaké Airport. Four people were killed and ten others wounded.[2]

gollark: ++exec -L c-gcc```cint main(int apiohazard, char* *apioform) { char buf[1024]; printf("out: %s", "Hello World"); return 0;}```
gollark: Wait a minute, that's undefined behavior, so is it just using that as an excuse to make my program do literally nothing?
gollark: ++exec -L c-gcc```cint main(int apiohazard, char* *apioform) { char buf[1024]; printf("out: %s", buf); return 0;}```
gollark: Um.
gollark: ++exec -L c-gcc```cint main(int apiohazard, char* *apioform) { char buf[1024]; printf("out: %s", buf); return 3333;}```

References
  1. "Bouaké, Ivory Coast to see inaugural int'l ops in 4Q18". ch-aviation.com. 8 October 2018.
  2. Rockets fired at Ivorian PM plane, BBC News, 29 juin 2007



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