Palana Airport

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Airport type Public Elevation AMSL 112 ft / 34 m 4,724 1,440 Elevation 34 m		Location Palana 12/30 4,724 1,440 Asphalt
Address Palana, Kamchatka Krai, Russia, 688000

Palana Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Палана) (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 crashed whilst on a domestic flight from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Palana Airport, killing ten of 14 people.

References

Palana Airport Wikipedia

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