Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport

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Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport Aéroport Paris-Charles-de-Gaulle Roissy Airport
IATA: CDG – ICAO: LFPG
Summary
Airport type		Public
Owner/Operator		Aéroports de Paris
Serves		Paris
Location		25 km (16 mi) NE of Paris
Hub for		Air France easyJet FedEx Express
Elevation AMSL		392 ft / 119 m
Coordinates		49°00′35″N 002°32′52″E / 49.00972°N 2.54778°E / 49.00972; 2.54778 (Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport)Coordinates: 49°00′35″N 002°32′52″E / 49.00972°N 2.54778°E / 49.00972; 2.54778 (Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport)
Website		http://www.aeroportsdeparis.fr/ADP/en-gb
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	m	ft
08L/26R	4,215	13,829	Asphalt
08R/26L	2,700	8,858	Concrete
09L/27R	2,700	8,858	Asphalt
09R/27L	4,200	13,780	Asphalt
Statistics (2008)
Aircraft movements			559,812
Passengers			61,851,998
Source: French AIP[1] Airports Council International[2][3]

Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport (IATA: CDG, ICAO: LFPG) (French: Aéroport Paris-Charles de Gaulle), also known as Roissy Airport (or just Roissy in French), in the Paris area, is one of the world's principal aviation centres, as well as France's main airport. It is named after Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), leader of the Free French Forces and founder of the French Fifth Republic. It is located within portions of several communes, 25 km (16 mi)^[1] to the north-east of Paris. The airport serves as the principal hub for Air France.

In 2008, Charles de Gaulle Airport handled 60,851,998 passengers^[3] and 559,812 aircraft movements^[2], making it the world's fifth busiest airport in terms of passengers and Europe's busiest (world's 5th busiest) airport in terms of aircraft movements. In terms of cargo traffic, the airport is the busiest in Europe and the world's 6th busiest, having handled 2,280,049 metric tonnes of cargo^[4].

Contents 1 Location 2 History 2.1 Corporate identity 2.2 Collapse of Terminal 2E 3 Terminals 3.1 Expansion plans 2007-2012 4 Airlines and destinations 4.1 Terminal 1 4.2 Terminal 2 4.2.1 Hall A (Terminal 2A) 4.2.2 Hall B (Terminal 2B) 4.2.3 Hall C (Terminal 2C) 4.2.4 Hall D (Terminal 2D) 4.2.5 Hall E (Terminal 2E) 4.2.6 Hall F (Terminal 2F) 4.2.6.1 Hall 2F1 (Schengen Flights) 4.2.6.2 Hall 2F2 (Non-Schengen Flights) 4.2.7 Hall G (Terminal 2G) 4.3 Terminal 3 4.4 Cargo airlines 5 Ground transportation 5.1 RER -- Heavy-rail service to downtown and suburban Paris 5.2 TGV -- French High-Speed Rail 5.3 CDGVAL -- Free Light-rail shuttle between terminals 5.4 Bus 6 Alternative Airports 7 Accidents and incidents 8 Trivia 8.1 Mehran Karimi Nasseri 8.2 Appearances in films and other works 8.3 Photography restrictions 9 See also 10 References 11 Notes and references 12 External links

Location

Charles de Gaulle Airport extends over 32.38 km² (12.50 sq mi) of land. The choice of this vast area was made based on the limited number of potential relocations and expropriations and the possibility to further expand the airport in the future. It straddles three départements and six communes:

• Seine-et-Marne département: communes of Le Mesnil-Amelot (Terminals 2E, 2F), Mauregard (Terminals 1, 3), Mitry-Mory
• Seine-Saint-Denis département: commune of Tremblay-en-France (Terminals 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D)
• Val-d'Oise département: communes of Roissy-en-France and Épiais-lès-Louvres

Management of the airport is solely under the authority of Aéroports de Paris, which also manages Orly, Le Bourget, Marsa Alam in Egypt and several smaller airports in the suburbs of Paris.

History

The planning and construction phase of what was known then as Aéroport de Paris Nord (Paris North Airport) began in 1966. On 8 March 1974 the airport, renamed Charles de Gaulle Airport, began service. Terminal 1 was built to an avant-garde design of a ten-floor high circular building surrounded by seven satellite buildings each with four gates. The main architect was Paul Andreu, who was also in charge of the extensions during the following decades.

The grassy lands on which the airport is located are notorious for rabbits and hares, which can be seen by airplane passengers at certain times of the day. The airport organises periodic hunts and captures to keep the population to manageable levels.^[5]

Corporate identity

The Frutiger typeface was commissioned for use in the airport and implemented on signs throughout the building in 1975. Initially called Roissy, it was renamed for its designer Adrian Frutiger.

Until 2005, every P.A. announcement made at Terminal 1 was preceded by a distinctive chime, nicknamed "Indicatif Roissy" and composed by Bernard Parmegiani in 1971. The chime can be heard in the Roman Polanski film Frantic. The chime was replace by the "Indicatif ADP".

Collapse of Terminal 2E

Terminal 2E, with a daring design and wide open spaces, was CDG's newest addition. On 23 May 2004, not long after its inauguration, a portion of Terminal 2E's ceiling collapsed early in the day, near Gate E50, killing four people.^[6] Two of the dead were reported to be Chinese citizens and another Czech. Three other people were injured in the collapse. Terminal 2E had been inaugurated in 2003 after some delays in construction and was designed by Paul Andreu. Administrative and judicial enquiries were started. Andreu also designed Terminal 3 at Dubai International Airport, which collapsed while under construction on 28 September 2004.

Before this accident, ADP had been planning for a public stock offering in 2005 with the new terminal as a major attraction for investors. The partial collapse and indefinite closing of the terminal just before the beginning of summer seriously hurt the airport's business plan.

In February 2005, the results from the administrative inquiry were published. The experts pointed out that there was no single fault, but rather a number of causes for the collapse, in a design that had little margin for safety. The enquiry found the concrete vaulted roof was not resilient enough and had been pierced by metallic pillars and some openings weakened the structure. Sources close to the enquiry also disclosed that the whole building chain had worked as close to the limits as possible, so as to reduce costs. Paul Andreu denounced the building companies for having not correctly prepared the reinforced concrete.

On 17 March 2005, ADP decided to tear down and rebuild the whole part of Terminal 2E (the "jetty") of which a section had collapsed, at a cost of approximately €100 million.^[7] The reconstruction will replace the innovative concrete tube style of the jetty with a more traditional steel and glass structure. During reconstruction, two temporary departure lounges have been constructed in the vicinity of the terminal that replicate the capacity of 2E before the collapse. The terminal reopened completely on 30 March 2008.

Terminals

The Airport has three terminals. Terminal 1^[8] is the oldest. Terminal 2^[9] was originally built exclusively for Air France, since then it had been expanded significantly and now also hosts other airlines. The third terminal (T3, formerly T9) hosts charter and low cost airlines.

Terminal 1 has a single main building for check-in and baggage reclaim with 7 satellites for arrivals and departures. Each satellite can handle about 5 aircraft at any given time. Underground walkways with moving sidewalks connect the satellites to the main building. Terminal 1 was built to an avant-garde design which is maintained today even though interior sections of the building have been renovated and modernised.

The RER station for Terminal 1,^[10] Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 1, is at a distance from Terminal 1 must be reached using the free CDGVAL automatic light rail system (Véhicule Automatique Léger (VAL); previously, shuttle buses were used.

Terminal 2 today consists of multiple terminals joined together by ground-level or below ground passageways. The seven terminals consist of 2A, 2B, 2C, 2D, 2E, 2F and the separate 2G. Terminal 2G is located 2.5 km (1.6 mi) away from the terminals 2A-2F and a bus ride is needed for transfer. Terminal 2 also has an RER and TGV station, Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 2 – TGV, below the common area linking halls 2C-2F.

Terminal 3 has a single hall. It is located 1 km (0.62 mi) from Terminal 1, but the walking path is 3 km (1.9 mi) long. The RER and CDGVAL trains are at a distance of 300 m (980 ft) on foot.

Started on 4 April 2007, CDGVAL links all the three terminals (except hall 2G), although there is only a single station for Terminal 2, near the rail station, so the walk distance to the more distant halls 2A-2B is more than 500 m (1,600 ft) (and both CDGVAL and bus is needed to reach 2G from Terminal 1).

Expansion plans 2007-2012

Apart from the reconstruction of Terminal 2E, two major terminal extensions are underway as of 2008.

The completion of 750 m (2,500 ft) long Satellite 3 (or S3) to the immediate east of Terminals 2E and 2F provides further jetways for large capacity airliners, specifically the Airbus A380. Check-in and baggage handling are provided by the existing infrastructure in Terminals 2E and 2F. Satellite 3 was opened in part on 27 June 2007 and fully operational in September 2007. A similar in size and scope Satellite 4 is planned to open in 2012 to provide additional capacity.^[11]

Construction began on a new terminal building, Terminal 2G, to the east of the S3 construction site in September 2006 with the first stone of the new building itself laid in March 2007. This terminal was in operation in March 2009. It is connected to the Terminal 2 complex by shuttle buses and eventually an extension of the CDGVAL shuttle train service. 2G is used for passengers flying in the Schengen Area (and thus has no passport control) and handles Air France regional and European traffic and provides small capacity planes (up to 150 passengers) with a faster turn-around time than is currently possible by enabling them to park close to the new terminal building and boarding passengers primarily by bus, or walk on the ground. Its bus connection is outside the security area and a security check is needed also for transfer passengers. At least 20 minutes must be planned as time when getting from another terminal to the 2G departure area.

Future use of Terminal 2 by Air France constantly evolves thanks to the development and opening of the S3 complex and the new 2G section of Terminal 2. On 30 March 2008, the reopening of Terminal 2E was completed allowing maximum passenger activity and full airport services. Air France operations are now concentrated at Terminals 2C, 2D, 2E, 2F and 2G and it has ceased operating from Terminals 2A and 2B.

Terminal 3 is not really connected and there is a more than five-minute walk from the tram station. Also, the information booth may direct people to Terminal 2 for certain airlines that are actually serviced by Terminal 3. In addition, in each of the terminals, they only show the flights in the that terminal.

Airlines and destinations

Terminal 1

Airlines	Destinations
Adria Airways	Ljubljana
Aegean Airlines	Athens
Aer Arann	Isle of Man [begins 20 February]
Aer Lingus	Cork, Dublin
Afriqiyah Airways	Tripoli
AirBaltic	Riga
Air China	Beijing-Capital, Shanghai-Pudong
Air Moldova	Chişinău
All Nippon Airways	Tokyo-Narita
Arkia Israel Airlines	Tel Aviv
Asiana Airlines	Seoul-Incheon
Blue1	Helsinki, Kittilä [seasonal; begins 19 December]
Bmibaby	East Midlands
Brussels Airlines	Brussels
Bulgarian Air Charter	Burgas [seasonal], Varna [seasonal]
Croatia Airlines	Dubrovnik [seasonal], Pula [seasonal], Split [seasonal], Zagreb
Cyprus Airways	Larnaca, Thessaloniki
Daallo Airlines	Djibouti
EgyptAir	Cairo, Luxor
Estonian Air	Tallinn
EVA Air	Taipei-Taoyuan
Flybe	Belfast-City, Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Glasgow-International, Jersey, Manchester, Southampton
Gabon Airlines	Libreville
Gulf Air	Bahrain
Hamburg International	Enontekiö [begins 5 December], Funchal [begins 6 December], Marrakech [begins 4 December]
Icelandair	Reykjavík-Keflavík
Kuwait Airways	Kuwait, Rome-Fiumicino
LOT Polish Airlines	Kraków, Warsaw
Lufthansa	Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Milan-Malpensa, Munich
Lufthansa Regional operated by Eurowings	Berlin-Tegel, Cologne/Bonn, Düsseldorf, Hanover, Nuremberg
Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine	Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Munich
Malaysia Airlines	Kuala Lumpur
Oman Air	Muscat
Olympic Air	Athens
Pakistan International Airlines	Frankfurt [begins 18 November], Islamabad, Lahore
Qatar Airways	Doha
SATA International	Funchal
Saudi Arabian Airlines	Jeddah, Riyadh, Rome-Fiumicino
Scandinavian Airlines System	Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda
Singapore Airlines	Singapore
SriLankan Airlines	Colombo
Swiss International Air Lines	Zürich
TACV	Sal
TAP Portugal	Lisbon, Porto [seasonal]
TAP operated by Portugália	Porto [seasonal]
Thai Airways International	Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi
Turkish Airlines	Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk
United Airlines	Chicago-O'Hare, Washington-Dulles
US Airways	Charlotte [seasonal], Philadelphia

Note: Continental Airlines will move to T1 from T2A on 17 November^[12]

Terminal 2

Hall A (Terminal 2A)

Airlines	Destinations
Air Austral	Nouméa, St-Denis-de-la-Réunion, Sydney
Air Canada	Montréal-Trudeau, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver [seasonal]
Air Madagascar	Antananarivo, Nosy Be [seasonal]
Air Tahiti Nui	Los Angeles, Papeete
American Airlines	Boston, Chicago-O'Hare, Dallas/Fort Worth, Miami, New York-JFK
British Airways	London-Heathrow
British Airways operated by Sun Air of Scandinavia	Billund
Cathay Pacific	Hong Kong
Continental Airlines	Houston-Intercontinental, Newark
El Al	Eilat-Ovda, Tel Aviv
Ethiopian Airlines	Addis Ababa
Etihad Airways	Abu Dhabi
Sun d'Or International Airlines	Eilat-Ovda, Tel Aviv
TAM Airlines	Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, São Paulo-Guarulhos
XL Airways France	Cancún, New York-JFK [seasonal], Phuket, Punta Cana

Note: Continental Airlines will move from T2A to T1 on 17 November

Hall B (Terminal 2B)

Airlines	Destinations
Aigle Azur	Annaba, Hassi Messaoud, Oran
Air Algérie	Algiers
Azerbaijan Airlines	Baku
Belavia	Minsk
Bulgaria Air	Sofia
EasyJet	Ajaccio [seasonal], Barcelona, Bastia, Belfast-International, Biarritz, Bristol, Casablanca, Edinburgh, Geneva, Glasgow-International, Ibiza, Kraków, Lisbon, Liverpool, London-Luton, Madrid, Marrakech, Milan-Malpensa, Newcastle upon Tyne, Nice, Porto, Tangier, Venice-Marco Polo
Georgian Airways	Tbilisi
Jat Airways	Belgrade
Montenegro Airlines	Podgorica, Tivat
Royal Jordanian	Amman, Aqaba
TAROM	Bucharest-Henri Coandă
Ukraine International Airlines	Kiev-Boryspil
Uzbekistan Airways	Tashkent

Hall C (Terminal 2C)

Airlines	Destinations
Air France	Antananarivo, Bangalore, Brazzaville, Conakry, Cotonou, Delhi, Douala, Havana, Kinshasa, Lomé, Mumbaï, Pointe-à-Pitre [seasonal], Punta Cana, Saint Martin, Santo Domingo, Yaoundé
Armavia	Yerevan
Emirates	Dubaï
Rossiya	St Petersburg
Vietnam Airlines	Hanoï, Ho Chi Minh City

Hall D (Terminal 2D)

Airlines	Destinations
Air Europa	Málaga, Valencia
Air France	Athens, Berlin-Tegel, Bologna, Budapest, Copenhagen, Düsseldorf, Figari [seasonal], Frankfurt, Hamburg, Lisbon, Munich, Nantes, Oslo-Gardermoen, Prague, Stuttgart, Turin, Vienna
Air France operated by Régional	Bologna, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart, Turin
Air Malta	Malta
Austrian Airlines	Vienna
Cimber Sterling	Billund
Czech Airlines	Prague
Finnair	Helsinki
Luxair	Luxembourg
Malév Hungarian Airlines	Budapest

Hall E (Terminal 2E)

Airlines	Destinations
Aeroflot	Moscow-Sheremetyevo
Aeroméxico	Mexico City
Air France	Abidjan, Amman, Atlanta, Bamako, Belgrade, Beijing-Capital, Boston, Buenos Aires-Ezeiza, Chicago-O'Hare, Dakar, Damascus, Detroit, Dubaï, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Houston-Intercontinental, Jeddah, Johannesburg, Kiev-Boryspil, Lagos, Libreville, London-Heathrow, Los Angeles, Malabo, Manchester, Mexico City, Miami, Moscow-Sheremetyevo, N'djamena, New York-JFK, Newark, Nouakchott, Osaka-Kansai, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Riyadh, Saint Petersburg, San Francisco, Santiago de Chile, Seattle/Tacoma, Seoul-Incheon, Singapore, Tel Aviv, Tokyo-Narita, Washington-Dulles, Yerevan
Air France operated by Airlinair	Bristol, London-Heathrow [seasonal]
Air France operated by Brit Air	Newcastle upon Tyne, Zagreb
Air France operated by CityJet	Birmingham, Dublin, Edinburgh
Air France operated by Régional	Aberdeen, Manchester
China Southern Airlines	Guangzhou
Delta Air Lines	Atlanta, Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky, Minneapolis/St. Paul [seasonal], Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Salt Lake City
Japan Airlines	Tokyo-Narita
Korean Air	Seoul-Incheon

Hall F (Terminal 2F)

Hall 2F1 (Schengen Flights)

Airlines	Destinations
Air France	Amsterdam, Barcelona, Bordeaux, Geneva, Lyon, Madrid, Marseille, Milan-Linate, Milan-Malpensa, Montpellier, Naples, Nice, Rome-Fiumicino, Stockholm-Arlanda, Toulouse, Venice-Marco Polo, Warsaw
Alitalia	Milan-Linate, Rome-Fiumicino
Alitalia operated by Air One	Milan-Linate
KLM	Amsterdam

Hall 2F2 (Non-Schengen Flights)

Airlines	Destinations
Air France	Algiers, Bangkok-Suvarnabhumi, Bangui, Beirut, Bogotá, Bucharest-Henri Coandă, Cairo, Caracas, Casablanca, Djibouti, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Istanbul-Atatürk, Luanda, Mauritius, Montreal-Trudeau, Niamey, Ouagadougou, Pointe-Noire, Rabat, São Paulo-Guarulhos, Shanghai-Pudong, Sofia, Toronto-Pearson, Tunis
Air India	Delhi, Mumbai
Air Mauritius	Mauritius
Air Seychelles	Mahé
China Eastern Airlines	Shanghai-Pudong
Kenya Airways	Nairobi
Middle East Airlines	Beirut
TAAG Angola Airlines	Luanda

Hall G (Terminal 2G)

Airlines	Destinations
Air France	Brest, Pau
Air France operated by Airlinair	Rennes
Air France operated by Brit Air	Bilbao, Brest, Clermont-Ferrand, Genoa, Pisa, Strasbourg, Trieste
Air France operated by CityJet	Florence, Zürich
Air France operated by Régional	Asturias, Basel/Mulhouse, Bremen, Brest, Clermont-Ferrand, Gothenburg-Landvetter, Hanover, Leipzig/Halle, Ljubljana, Münster/Osnabrück, Nuremberg, Pau, Pisa, Verona, Vigo

Terminal 3

Airlines	Destinations
Air Arabia Maroc	Casablanca
Air Méditerranée	Agadir, Amman, Athens, Bamako, Dakar, Djerba, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Jerez de la Frontera, Reykjavik-Keflavik, Luxor, Malta, Marrakech, Monastir, Oran, Oslo-Gardermoen, Palma de Mallorca, Shannon [seasonal], Tunis, Varna
Air Transat	Calgary [seasonal], Montréal-Trudeau, Québec City, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver [seasonal]
Blue Line (airline)	Almeria, Bourgas [begins 24 March], Er-Rachidia, Heraklion [seasonal], Mallorca, Málaga, Ponta Delgada, Porto, Tangier [seasonal], Zanzibar [seasonal]
Hewa Bora Airways	Kinshasa
Iceland Express	Reykjavík-Keflavík
Jet2.com	Leeds/Bradford
Jet4You.com	Agadir [seasonal], Casablanca [seasonal], Marrakech [seasonal]
Meridiana	Cagliari, Milan-Linate, Palermo
New Axis Airways	Tel Aviv
Niki	Vienna
Nouvelair	Monastir
Onur Air	Antalya, Istanbul-Atatürk
Sky Airlines	Antalya
Smart Wings	Prague
Tunisair	Djerba, Monastir
Windjet	Catania, Forli, Palermo
XL Airways France	Antalya, Catania, Djerba, Figari, Heralklion, Palermo, Rovaniemi [begins 20 December], Split [all seasonal]

Cargo airlines

• Air Contractors
• Air France Cargo
• Cathay Pacific Cargo
• China Cargo Airlines
• Europe Airpost
• European Air Transport
• Farnair Hungary
• FedEx Express
  • FedEx Feeder operated by Air Contractors
• Korean Air Cargo
• MNG Airlines
• Star Air
• TNT Airways
• Turkish Airlines Cargo
• UPS Airlines

Ground transportation

RER -- Heavy-rail service to downtown and suburban Paris

CDG is connected to the RER suburban rail network, providing services into central Paris three to four times per hour.

CDG airport is connected to Paris by the RER B suburban route. Normally there are two types of services: 4 times per hour to Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse calling at all stations to Cité Universitaire, then Bourg-la-Reine, La Croix de Berny, Antony, Massy – Palaiseau and then all stations to Saint-Rémy-lès-Chevreuse and 4 times per hour to Massy – Palaiseau (on the Saint-Rémy line), first stop Gare du Nord and then all stations to Massy – Palaiseau. The fast services take about 30 minutes to the Gare du Nord, the stopping services about 35. There are two RER B stations inside the airport:

• one, called Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 1, is located inside Roissypôle (an area with hotels and company offices) next to Terminal 3 and is the preferred way to access Terminals 1 and 3;
• the other, called Aéroport Charles de Gaulle 2 – TGV, is located beside the TGV station under Terminal 2.

RER B both serves CDG airport (with a travelling clientele) as well as northern suburbs of Paris. The line, operated by SNCF, suffers from slowness and saturation. For these reasons, French authorities have started two projects: one, CDG Express^[13] (opening between 2012 and 2015), will link CDG to Paris Gare de l'Est with trains specifically designed for air travellers; the other, RER B Nord Plus,^[14] will modernise and streamline the northern branches of RER B.

TGV -- French High-Speed Rail

Terminal 2 includes a TGV station on the LGV Interconnexion Est high-speed line. SNCF operates direct TGV services to several French stations from CDG, including Le Havre, Angers, Avignon, Bordeaux, Dijon, Grenoble, Le Mans, Lille, Arras, Lyon, Marseilles, Montpellier, Nantes, Nîmes, Poitiers, Rennes, Strasbourg, Toulouse, Tours and Valence.

CDGVAL -- Free Light-rail shuttle between terminals

Terminals 1, 2, the Roissypôle / Terminal 3 RER station and parking lots P_X and P_R are connected by the free CDGVAL automated rail shuttle, replacing free shuttle buses.

Bus

Roissybus, operated by RATP, departs from terminals 1 and 2 and goes non-stop to Paris, behind the Palais Garnier.

There is a bus and coach station in Roissypôle, next to the RER B station. Buses departing from this station include RATP lines 350 and 351 going to Paris and the bus going to the Parc Astérix.

Alternative Airports

The three other airports serving Paris are Orly Airport, the most important after CDG; Paris Beauvais Tillé Airport, which mainly serves low-cost airlines; and Le Bourget Airport for general aviation (business jets).

Accidents and incidents

• On 25 July 2000, a Concorde, Air France Flight 4590 from Charles de Gaulle to John F. Kennedy International Airport, crashed into the farthest hotel of Hotelissimo in Gonesse killing everyone on the aircraft and four people on the ground. Investigations concluded that a tire burst occurred on take off due to metal left on the runway from a previously departing aircraft. The Concorde was on a German charter flight for a tour company.

Other accidents and incidents involving CDG include:

• On 2 August 2005, a A340-300, Air France Flight 358 from Charles de Gaulle to Toronto Pearson International Airport, made a successful landing during a thunderstorm but overran the runway crashing in a gully; all 309 passengers including crew members survived the crash.
• On 1 June 2009, an A330-200, Air France Flight 447, departed Rio de Janeiro for Charles de Gaulle. The plane's computers transmitted messages stating that it had experienced various failures. Wreckage of the aircraft was found 370 miles off the coast of Brazil on 2 June 2009; all 228 people on board are presumed dead.
• Avianca Flight 011 (1983), inbound from CDG to Bogotá (BOG) via Madrid (MAD), crashed near MAD.
• UTA Flight 772 (1989), bound for CDG from Brazzaville-N'Djamena, crashed when a bomb placed inside a luggage exploded when the aircraft was flying in Niger.
• TWA Flight 800 (1996), bound for CDG, exploded soon after takeoff and crashed off the coast of Long Island
• Flash Airlines Flight 604 (2004), bound for CDG, crashed into the Red Sea

Trivia

Mehran Karimi Nasseri

On 26 August 1988, Mehran Karimi Nasseri found himself held at Charles de Gaulle airport by immigration. He claimed he was a refugee, but had had his refugee papers stolen. After years of bureaucratic wrangling, it was concluded that Nasseri had entered the airport legally and could not be expelled from its walls; but since he had no papers, there was no country to deport him to either, leaving him in residential limbo. Nasseri continued to live within the confines of the airport until 2006, even though French authorities had since made it possible for him to leave if he so wished.^[15] He was the possible inspiration for the 2004 film The Terminal. In July 2006 he was hospitalised and later taken care of by charities; he did not return to the airport.

Appearances in films and other works

• In the video of the U2 song "Beautiful Day" the band can be seen walking through the airport. The cover photo for their album All That You Can't Leave Behind was also taken there.
• The airport tarmac was used in the Disneyland Resort Paris attraction film The Timekeeper (Le Visionarium), featuring an Air France Concorde and a Union des Transports Aériens McDonnell Douglas DC-10.
• Many scenes were filmed at the airport for the film The Concorde ... Airport '79.
• The distinctive escalator tubes of Terminal 1 are featured in the films Private Benjamin and French Kiss and are used as the backdrop of the album cover for I Robot by The Alan Parsons Project.
• The check-in area of Terminal 2F is a favourite film location for French directors and can frequently be seen in French films that require an airport location.
• The film Décalage Horaire (Jet Lag) is set primarily at the airport and a nearby hotel.
• The movie Frantic features a scene in terminal one when Harrison Ford and Emmanuelle Béart pick up lost baggage.
• The movie Rush Hour 3 features Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker arriving from Terminal 2F and they get anally searched by French authorities.
• The movie Taken has a few scenes taking place at CDG Airport Terminal 2.

Photography restrictions

On 7 November 2005, prefectoral decision 05-4979 was issued, relating specifically to Charles de Gaulle airport. The law prohibits photographs being taken for private use of anything moving (e.g. aircraft) or not moving (e.g. buildings) within the "zone reservée" (the restricted area) from the "zone publique" (the public area). Thus, for example, one is prohibited from taking pictures from the glassed-in jetways while boarding or debarking; however, it is OK to take pictures inside one's aircraft or terminal.

See also

• Transportation in France
• List of airports in France

References

Notes and references

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General

• Aéroports de Paris (official website) (English)
• Aéroport de Paris - Roissy Charles de Gaulle (Union des Aéroports Français) (French)
• Accident history for CDG at Aviation Safety Network
• Current weather for LFPG at NOAA/NWS

Collapse of Terminal 2E

• Official report of the administrative enquiry commission (French)
• Photos of Terminal 2E before and after the collapse and during reconstruction

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