Airport in East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
Location of airport in Sumba Island
| Runways |
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| Direction | Length | Surface | | m | ft | | 10/28[1] | 2,300 | 7,546 | Asphalt | |
Lede Kalumbang Airport (Indonesian: Bandar Udara Lede Kalumbang) (IATA: TMC, ICAO: WATK), formerly Tambolaka Airport, is an airport in Tambolaka, Southwest Sumba Regency, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia. A new terminal inaugurated in 2015 expanded passenger services. A cafe and shops are available at the terminal, and there is a car park and some taxi stands outside the terminal.
Terminals, airlines and destinations
Accidents and incidents
- On February 11, 2006, Adam Air Flight 782, registration number PK-KKE, lost navigational and communications systems twenty minutes into a flight from Jakarta to Makassar, South Sulawesi. The plane was subsequently flown into a radar "black spot" and was lost for several hours, eventually making an emergency landing at Tambolaka Airport, Sumba (on a different island 481 km away from their intended destination, and southeast from their origin, instead of north-east). The pilot was fired because the Adam Air flight violated multiple safety regulations, including removing an aircraft before it was due for inspection by aviation authorities.[2]
References
- ^ "Direktorat Jenderal Perhubungan Udara".
- ^ B737 makes emergency landing after nav and comm systems failure - Aviation Safety Network - retrieved March 4, 2007.
External links
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