In 2010, a new 3,300-metre (10,800 ft) long runway and a new terminal with three
air bridges were opened. The older runway was repaired and now is used as a taxiway. A second phase of the new terminal was completed in 2013, the construction of which, valued at $160 million, was undertaken by Chinese construction firm
Weihai International Economic & Technical Cooperative Co., Ltd.[2]
On 19 September 1989
UTA Flight 772, a McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 (registration N54629)[11] operating the Brazzaville-N'Djamena-Paris CDG sector, was bombed 46 minutes after take-off from N'Djamena causing the aircraft to crash while flying over
Niger. All 156 passengers and 14 crew members on board perished.[12][13] For nearly 20 years, this incident marked the deadliest air disaster involving a French-operated
airliner, in terms of loss of life. As of June 2009, it ranks as the second-deadliest (see
Air France Flight 447).
23 November 1996: Hijackers forced
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961, bound from Mumbai and Addis Ababa to
Abidjan through many stops (including Brazzaville), to crash into the Indian Ocean.