A new terminal with a capacity of 5 million passengers will be developed north of the existing runway at Benina International under a 720 million LYD (€ 415 million) first-stage contract awarded to Canada's SNC-Lavalin.
The worst accident in the history of Central African Airways occurred on 9 August 1958 when a flight from Salisbury to London crashed during approach of Benghazi Airport for a stopover, killing 36 of the 54 people on board.
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The 1958 Central African Airways plane crash occurred when a Vickers Viscount airliner crashed during a scheduled passenger flight from Wadi Halfa, Sudan, to Benghazi, Libya, on 9 August 1958 about 9 kilometers southeast of Benina International Airport in Libya.