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Airport type
  
Public

Location
  
Lensk, Russia

07/25
  
6,562

Elevation
  
244 m

Serves
  
Lensk

Elevation AMSL
  
801 ft / 244 m

6,562
  
2,000

Phone
  
+7 411 372-11-19

Lensk Airport

Address
  
Ленский улус, Ленск, Sakha Republic, Russia, 678145

Lensk Airport is a public airport near Lensk in Russia. It works as focus city for Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise.

Accidents and incidents

  • On 4 July 2012, a helicopter operated by UTair Aviation for an oil and gas company crashed in a remote area about 4 kilometers from the runway of Lensk Airport. The wreckage was found several hours later and three bodies were recovered, with the fourth person also presumed killed. The cause was not immediately known, but UTair grounded all aircraft at Lensk Airport pending an investigation into the quality of fuel supply at the airport.

    • References

    Lensk Airport Wikipedia
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