Originally Posted by
capngrog
I looked up the Kamina Airport on good old Googol Earth, and it appears that the airport is in the middle of a mixed residential-commercial area. Depending on how they are counted, there are from 15 to 20 crossings along the 4800 ft. length of the runway, and these crossings appear to be well-used pedestrian foot paths. Kamina appears to be a fairly large city, and I would expect that the airport experiences several aircraft operations per day, but apparently there is no perimeter fence for the airport. Is this the usual situation one finds at "outback" African airports?
Cheers,
Grog
From my experiences working in Africa, not only DRC, there are no shortage of similar airports/traffic patterns - that there are not many more such accidents is testament to the skill of the aircrews involved.