Lensk Airport
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Lensk Airport Лиэнскэй Аэропорт | |||||||||||
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| Summary | |||||||||||
| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Operator | Airports of the North[1] | ||||||||||
| Serves | Lensk | ||||||||||
| Location | Lensk, Russia | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 801 ft / 244 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 60°43′14″N 114°49′33″E / 60.72056°N 114.82583°E | ||||||||||
| Website | sever.aero/lensk] | ||||||||||
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  UERL Location of the airport in the Sakha Republic | |||||||||||
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| Sources: Great Circle Mapper[2] | |||||||||||
Lensk Airport (Yakut: Лиэнскэй Аэропорт) (IATA: ULK, ICAO: UERL) is a public airport near Lensk in Sakha Republic.[3] It works as focus city for Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise.
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise | Irkutsk, Yakutsk |
| IrAero | Irkutsk |
| Polar Airlines | Irkutsk, Yakutsk |
| Yakutia Airlines | Bratsk, Irkutsk, Yakutsk |
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.[4]
