Accidents and Incidents
- On 4 April 1943, Lady Be Good World War II B-24 Liberator crashed south of Soluch Field and was lost for 15 years.
- On 9 August 1958, Vickers Viscount VP-YNE of Central African Airways crashed 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) south east of Benina International Airport, killing 36 of the 54 people on board. See: 1958 Central African Airways plane crash
- On 22 January 1971, a Douglas DC-3 of Ethiopian Airlines was hijacked on a domestic passenger flight from Bahir Dar Airport to Gondar Airport by four Eritrean hijackers. The aircraft was forced to land at Benghazi Airport.
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