Lensk is the airport of the city of the same name in Yakutia . It is of regional importance, it provides regular flights with airports in neighboring Yakutia uluses, as well as with Yakutsk , Krasnoyarsk , and Irkutsk .
| Lensk Airport | ||||||||||
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| IATA : ULK (internal LSC) - ICAO : UERL (UERL) | ||||||||||
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| Type of | civil | |||||||||
| A country |  Russia | |||||||||
| Location |  Yakutia | |||||||||
| Operator | Mirninskoye AP of AK Alrosa | |||||||||
| NUM height | +244 m | |||||||||
| Timezone | UTC + 10 / + 10 | |||||||||
| Site | Official site | |||||||||
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Content
Accepted aircraft types [1]
An-12 , An-24 , An-26 , An-38 , An-72 , An-140 , Yak-40 , L-410 , Il-76 (in winter) and lighter, all types of helicopters .
| Passenger traffic: | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| year | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | ||||||||||||||||
| thousand passengers | 64.3 | 67.8 | 84.3 | 57.3 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources: [2] [3] [4] | ||||||||||||||||||||
Routing network [5]
| Airline | Destinations |
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| Hangar | Irkutsk |
| Alrosa | Vitim, Irkutsk, Mirny, Peledui, Yakutsk |
| KrasAvia | Krasnoyarsk (Emelyanovo) |
| Yakutia | Bratsk, Irkutsk, Neryungri, Olekminsk, Yakutsk |
Incidents
- On September 16, 1991, the An-74 plane crashed at the airport. Immediately after taking off at night in simple weather conditions, the plane touched the trees with a left wing plane of 20-30 m high on the slope of a hill with a height of 133 m at a distance of 3903 m from the end of the runway, collided with the ground, collapsed and burned down. 13 people died. The take-off mass of the aircraft was more than 42 tons (cargo of fish) with a maximum permissible for actual flight conditions of 34.5 tons. The crew prematurely began flap cleaning, as a result of which the aircraft lost altitude. [6]
- On July 4, 2012, after taking off, Lensk, a helicopter of UTair Airlines Eurocopter AS-350 , made an emergency landing 4 km from the airport, after which, as a result of a hard landing, the helicopter caught fire. At the crash site, the bodies of three people were discovered, four were on board. [7]
Notes
- ↑ Aviapages.ru Lensk Airport / Lensk
- ↑ Volumes of traffic through Russian airports in January-December 2014-2015 Rosaviation . The date of appeal is January 16, 2018.
- ↑ Volumes of traffic through Russian airports in January-December 2015-2016 Rosaviation . The date of appeal is January 16, 2018.
- ↑ Volumes of traffic through Russian airports in January-December 2016-2017 (inaccessible link) . Rosaviation . Date of treatment March 28, 2018. Archived March 28, 2018.
- ↑ Lensk Airport on the website of the Mirny Aviation Enterprise (inaccessible link) Date of treatment December 7, 2009. Archived April 6, 2010.
- ↑ Flight accidents and disasters in the USSR and the Russian Federation
- ↑ Communication from UTair Aviation OJSC (unavailable link) . Date of access July 5, 2012. Archived October 22, 2012.