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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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