Tunoshna Airport
Yaroslavl (Tunoshna) International Airport Международный аэропорт Ярославль (Туношна) | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Yaroslavl Oblast Government | ||||||||||
| Operator | JSC "Airport Tunoshna" | ||||||||||
| Serves | Yaroslavl | ||||||||||
| Location | Yaroslavl, Russia | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 285 ft / 87 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 57°33′38.40″N 040°9′26.53″E / 57.5606667°N 40.1573694°E | ||||||||||
| Website | http://www.iar.aero | ||||||||||
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Yaroslavl (Tunoshna) International Airport (Tunoshna - also Tunoshnoye, or Tunoschna) (Russian: Международный аэропорт Ярославль (Ту́ношна)) (IATA: IAR, ICAO: UUDL) is an airport in Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia, located 18 km southeast of Yaroslavl. It is served by medium-sized airliners.
Airlines and destinations
The list of regular services changes frequently. According to the airport's website as of March 2018 the following flights are scheduled:
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| ALROSA | Seasonal: Simferopol |
| Pegas Fly | Seasonal charter: Dubai-Al Maktoum (begins 29 December 2018)[1] |
| S7 Airlines | St Petersburg |
| UVT Aero | Kazan |
History
During the Cold War it was a key interceptor aircraft base. It was home to 415 IAP (415th Interceptor Aviation Regiment) flying MiG-23P aircraft during the 1980s and 1990s.[2] This unit was decommissioned in 1992 and the planes were sent to Rzhev.
Accidents and incidents
On September 7, 2011, the Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash occurred which killed nearly the entire Lokomotiv Yaroslavl KHL hockey team. A Yak-Service Yak-42, carrying the team to a game in Minsk, Belarus crashed on take-off from Tunoshna, killing 44 of the 45 occupants.[3][4] The plane crashed and broke up approximately 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) from the end of the runway, at the Volga River. The cause was determined to be pilot error, when one of the two pilots incorrectly applied braking during takeoff, attributed to a lack of training in the aircraft.
References
- ^ "Flight Search". pegasys.pegast.ru. 19 February 2018.
- ^ "Aviatsiya PVO". Aviabaza KPOI.
- ^ "The Aviation Herald". avherald.com.
- ^ "List of those killed in plane crash near Yaroslavl" (in Russian). sovsport.ru. 2011-09-07. Retrieved 2011-09-07.
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