Oksibil Airport
Oksibil Airport Bandar Udara Oksibil | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
Owner | Government of Indonesia | ||||||||||
Serves | Oksibil | ||||||||||
Location | Oksibil, Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Papua, Indonesia | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 4,288 ft / 1,307 m | ||||||||||
Coordinates | 4°54′28″S 140°37′46″E / 4.907778°S 140.629444°E | ||||||||||
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Oksibil Airport (IATA: OKL, ICAO: WAJO) is an airport located at Oksibil, Papua, Indonesia. The airport has connecting flights to Template:IATA and ICAO code with Trigana Air Service and Wings Air. The airport's runway is 1,350 metres (4,430 ft) long and is partially marked asphalt (formerly grass) landing strip.[1] The runway can handle Turboprop STOL aircraft but is able to handle larger Turboprop Regional airliner. There are few buildings that acts as a terminal structure as well as a small tower in the tarmac area beside the runway.
Airlines and destinations
Airlines | Destinations |
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Trigana Air Service | Jayapura |
Incidents
In 16 August 2015 Trigana Air Flight 267 crashed on the mountain side en route to the airstrip killing all 54 on board.[2]
In August 2018, another plane crash occurred, when a Pilatus PC-6 Porter traveling from Tanah Merah crashed shortly before it was due to land in Oksibil. It was carrying nine people, including two crew members, and one passenger survived.[3][4]
References
- ^ "Direktorat Jenderal Perhubungan Udara - Data Bandar Udara". hubud.dephub.go.id.
- ^ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident ATR 42-300 PK-YRN Oksibil Airport (OKL)". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
- ^ "Indonesia plane crash: Boy, 12, survives Papua accident". BBC. 12 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
- ^ "12-year-old boy is only survivor of Indonesian plane crash". The Independent. Retrieved 2018-08-12.