Yakutsk Airport
Yakutsk Airport Аэропорт Якутск / Дьокуускай Аэропорт | |||||||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Operator | Yakutsk Airport State Enterprise | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Yakutsk | ||||||||||||||
Location | Yakutsk, Russia | ||||||||||||||
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Elevation AMSL | 99 m / 325 ft | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 62°05′36″N 129°46′14″E / 62.09333°N 129.77056°E | ||||||||||||||
Website | http://yks.aero/ | ||||||||||||||
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Yakutsk Airport (Yakut: Дьокуускай Аэропорт, Coquusqay Aeroport IPA: [ɟoquːsˈqaj aeɾoˈpoɾt]; Russian: Аэропо́рт Яку́тск, Aeroport Yakutsk) (IATA: YKS, ICAO: UEEE) is an airport in Yakutsk, Russia. It has one runway (an older runway serves as a parking area for disused aircraft) and has a capacity of 700 passengers per hour.
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The airport is the hub for five regional airlines, including Yakutia Airlines and Polar Airlines.
Construction of the airport started in 1931 and was used as a stopover on the ALSIB Alaska-Siberia air route for American planes flying to Europe during World War II. The present international terminal was built in 1996. The airport serves as a diversion airport on Polar route 4.[3][4]
Yakutsk has another, smaller airport at Magan, used by Boeing to test cold weather starting of its aircraft. [5]
Airlines and destinations
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Airlines | Destinations |
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Aeroflot | Moscow–Sheremetyevo, Vladivostok |
Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise | Lensk, Mirny |
Angara Airlines | Irkutsk, Novosibirsk[6] |
Polar Airlines | Batagay, Belaya Gora, Cherskiy, Chokurdakh, Deputatskiy, Irkutsk, Lensk, Moma, Nyurba, Olekminsk, Olenek, Sakkyryr, Saskylakh, Srednekolymsk, Suntar, Tiksi, Ust-Kuyga, Ust-Maya, Ust-Nera, Verkhnevilyuisk, Vilyuisk, Zyryanka |
Nordwind Airlines | Charter: Nha Trang |
S7 Airlines | Novosibirsk |
Yakutia Airlines | Blagoveschensk, Cherskiy, Chita, Harbin, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo, Magadan, Mirny, Moscow–Vnukovo, Neryungri, Novosibirsk, Saint Petersburg, Seoul–Incheon, Ulan-Ude, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg Seasonal: Anapa, Krasnodar, Omsk, Petropavlovsk–Kamchatsky, Sochi, Tokyo–Narita Seasonal charter: Qinhuangdao |
Accidents and incidents
Before 1992, Aeroflot had monopoly on Soviet domestic flights, and had a lot of accidents. At least a dozen deadly accidents happened on or near Yakutsk. See Aeroflot accidents and incidents.
- On 4 February 2010, Yakutia Airlines Flight 425, operated by Antonov An-24 RA-47360 suffered an engine failure on take-off for Olyokminsk Airport. During the subsequent landing, the nose and port main undercarriage were retracted, causing substantial damage to the aircraft.[7]
- On 10 October 2018, Flight 414, operated by an Sukhoi Superjet 100 RA-89011 rode out from a runway on landing at Yakutsk Airport from Ulan-Ude. During the subsequent landing, the behind chassis of the aircraft were broken.[8]No one was killed in the crash, four people were hospitalised.[9] There a decision to be made, whether the aircraft may be repaired and placed back into service.
References
- ^ Airport information for UEEE at Great Circle Mapper.
- ^ Airport information for Yakutsk Airport at Transport Search website.
- ^ Boeing-conducted Airport safety and operational assessments
- ^ New Cross-Polar Routes
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoiDaYhBVvM
- ^ "РАСПИСАНИЕ" (PDF). Angara Airlines. Retrieved 16 January 2013.
- ^ Hradecky, Simon. "Accident: Yakutia AN24 at Yakutsk on Feb 4th 2010, rejected takeoff, presumably early gear retraction". Aviation Herald. Retrieved 4 February 2010.
- ^ "Yakutia Superjet damaged in Yakutsk landing excursion". flightglobal.com. 10 October 2018.
- ^ "https://arigus.tv/news/item/118830/". arigus.ru. 10 October 2018.
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External links
- Article on Yakutsk Airport
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- Airport Yakutsk Aviateka.Handbook