Mirny Airport

Mirny Airport Аэропорт Мирный
IATA: MJZ – ICAO: UERR
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise
Serves		Mirny, Russia
Location		Yakutia, Russia
Elevation AMSL		1,155 ft / 352 m
Coordinates		62°32′04″N 114°02′20″E / 62.53444°N 114.03889°E / 62.53444; 114.03889Coordinates: 62°32′04″N 114°02′20″E / 62.53444°N 114.03889°E / 62.53444; 114.03889
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
	ft	m
06/24	9,187	2,800	Concrete

Mirny Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Мирный) (IATA: MJZ, ICAO: UERR) is an airport in Yakutia, Russia, located 4 km east of the mining town of Mirny. It handles medium-sized airliners and supports 24-hour flight operations. Mirny is a designated emergency airfield for the polar route between North America and Asia.^{[citation needed]} The airport is home base for Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise	Aykhal, Irkutsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Lensk, Moscow-Domodedovo, Moscow-Vnukovo, Novosibirsk, Olenyok, Polyarny, Saskylakh, Yakutsk
UTair Aviation	Surgut
Yakutia Airlines	Yakutsk

Incidents and accidents

• On November 1, 2009, an Ilyushin Il-76 of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs crashed soon after take-off from Mirny airport killing all 11 people on board. The plane was not carrying any cargo loads, as it was a repositioning flight to Irkutsk Airport. The Il-76 banked to the right and crashed into the ground near an old diamond mine.^[1][2]

References

1. ^ http://www.vesti.ru/videos?vid=247978
2. ^ Berry, Lynn for Associated Press. "Russian military cargo plane crashes on takeoff, killing all 11 crew members on board". Dailypress.com, 1 November 2009.

External links

• (Russian) Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise
• Mirny Airport (Аэропорт Мирный) at Russian Airports Database
• Airport information for UERR at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.
• Current weather for UERR at NOAA/NWS
• Historical Weather Records for Mirny
• Accident history for MJZ at Aviation Safety Network