Palana Airport
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Palana Airport Аэропорт Палана | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Location | Palana | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 112 ft / 34 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 59°4′54″N 159°53′18″E / 59.08167°N 159.88833°E | ||||||||||
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Palana Airport (Template:Lang-ru) (ICAO: UHPL) is an airport in Koryak Okrug, Russia located 4 km west of Palana. It services small transports. There is also the Palana New Airport, which appeared to be under construction around 2000 in Google Earth imagery.
Incidents and accidents
- On 12 September 2012, an An-28 operated by Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky Air Enterprise as Flight 251 [1] crashed whilst on a domestic flight from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana Airport, killing ten of 14 people.[2]
- ^ "RA-28715 Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
- ^ "10 dead in An-28 plane crash in Russia's Far East". Retrieved 12 September 2012.
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