Oksibil Airport
Oksibil Airport Bandar Udara Oksibil | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Government of Indonesia | ||||||||||
| Serves | Oksibil | ||||||||||
| Location | Oksibil, Pegunungan Bintang Regency, Highland Papua, Indonesia | ||||||||||
| Time zone | WITA (UTC+09:00) | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 4,288 ft / 1,307 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 4°54′28″S 140°37′46″E / 4.907778°S 140.629444°E | ||||||||||
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  OLK Location in Western New Guinea  OLK Location in Indonesia | |||||||||||
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Oksibil Airport (IATA: OKL, ICAO: WAJO) is located at Oksibil, Highland Papua, Indonesia. The airport has connecting flights to Jayapura with Trigana Air Service and Wings Air. The airport's runway is 1,350 metres (4,430 ft) long and is a partially marked asphalt (formerly grass) landing strip.[1] The runway can handle Turboprop STOL aircraft but is able to handle larger Turboprop Regional airliner. There are few buildings that acts as a terminal structure as well as a small tower in the tarmac area beside the runway.
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Trigana Air Service | Jayapura |
Incidents
On August 2, 2009, Merpati Nusantara Airlines Flight 9760 crashed on approach to the airport.
On 16 August 2015 Trigana Air Flight 267 crashed on the mountain side en route to the airstrip killing all 54 on board.[2]
3 years later on August 12, 2018, another plane crash occurred, when a Pilatus PC-6 Porter traveling from Tanah Merah crashed shortly before it was due to land in Oksibil. It was carrying nine people, including two crew members, and one passenger survived.[3][4]
References
- ^ "Direktorat Jenderal Perhubungan Udara - Data Bandar Udara". hubud.dephub.go.id.
- ^ Ranter, Harro. "ASN Aircraft accident ATR 42-300 PK-YRN Oksibil Airport (OKL)". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 2019-07-21.
- ^ "Indonesia plane crash: Boy, 12, survives Papua accident". BBC. 12 August 2018. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
- ^ "12-year-old boy is only survivor of Indonesian plane crash". The Independent. Retrieved 2018-08-12.