East Midlands Airport

East Midlands
Characteristics
ICAO code	EGNX
IATA code	EMA
Coordinates	52 ° 49 '52 "  N , 1 ° 19' 41"  W Coordinates: 52 ° 49 '52 "  N , 1 ° 19' 41"  W
Height above MSL	93 m (305  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	2 km south of Castle Donington , 13 km southeast of Derby
Street
Basic data
opening	1965
operator	East Midlands International Airport Limited , a subsidiary of Manchester Airport Group plc
Passengers	4,653,818 (2016)
Air freight	300,101 t (2016)
Flight movements	73,689 (2016)
Employees	481 (2013)
Start-and runway
09/27	2893 m × 46 m asphalt

The East Midlands Airport ( IATA code : EMA , ICAO code : EGNX ) is a civilian airport in the county of Leicestershire , England . It is located around 68 kilometers northeast of Birmingham . Other cities in the vicinity are Derby (about 15 km away) and Nottingham (about 20 km away).

history

East Midlands Airport was opened as RAF Castle Donington Air Base in January 1943 and was used in that capacity until 1946. After the Royal Air Force gave up the site, the site lay fallow.

From the beginning of the 1960s, plans were made for the construction of a new commercial airport in the region to relieve the Burnaston airfield located south of the city of Derby. The planned airport was named " East Midlands " in view of its future catchment area . In 1963 the East Midlands Airport Joint Committee acquired the fallow site. Construction work began in the following year. In April 1965 the airport was opened by Prince Philip , the Duke of Edinburgh . The airport was the home base of British Midland Airways (BMA). Before moving from Burnaston Airport, it changed its name from Derby Airways to British Midland Airways. Another company based at East Midlands Airport was the charter airline Orion Airways . In 1970 the runway was extended and in 1973 the first freight terminal went into operation. In 1984 the cargo airline Elan Air, from which DHL Air UK emerged in 1989 , began operations on site.

East Midlands Airport was privatized as the UK's first airport in 1993 and acquired by the National Express Group for £ 24.3 million. The National Express Group invested around £ 77 million in expanding the airport over the next eight years. In the course of the expansion, a new passenger terminal was inaugurated in 1996 and another freight terminal in 1997. The logistics company DHL opened a regional hub on site in 2000. The runway was extended to 2,893 meters in the same year. The airport has been operated by the Manchester Airport Group since 2001 . In 2002, the airline bmibaby started operations on site. Other low-cost airlines that use the airport as a base are Ryanair (since 2004) and Jet2.com (since 2009).

On the northwestern edge of the airport is the East Midlands Aeropark , which opened in 2001 and exhibits older military and civilian aircraft.

Furnishing

The runway is 2893 meters long, approved in landing direction 27 for all-weather flight operations category CAT II / IIIb and in landing direction 09 for CAT I and its load capacity is PCN 78 / F / C / W / T.

The airport is approved for 24-hour operation and has an airport fire department with a total of 54 employees. It is classified in ICAO fire protection category 8; this can be increased to category 9 on request.

Incidents

• On January 8, 1989, a BMA Boeing 737-400 ( aircraft registration G-OBME ) suffered engine damage on the flight from London Heathrow to Belfast and as a result crashed shortly before East Midlands Airport because the wrong engine had been switched off was. A total of 47 people were killed, 79 were rescued from the wreck of the machine, including both pilots. The cause was on the one hand the incorrect construction of the turbine blades of the new engines and the poor training and misjudgment of the pilots (see also British Midland flight 092 ) .

Web links

Commons : East Midlands Airport  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• East Midlands Airport site
• East Midlands Aeropark website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} East Midlands Aerodrome. (PDF) Textual Data. (No longer available online.) In: United Kingdom AIP . National Air Traffic Services, January 9, 2011, p. AD 2.EGNX-1 , formerly in the original ; accessed on September 13, 2014 (English).  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
2. ↑ ^{a b} Annual Report 2013. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: eastmidlandsairport.com. Manchester Airport Group plc, archived from the original on September 13, 2014 ; accessed on September 13, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Passenger numbers at all airports in the United Kingdom. (PDF; 79 kB) In: caa.co.uk. Civil Aviation Authority , accessed May 13, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Freight figures from all UK airports. (PDF; 12 kB) In: caa.co.uk. Civil Aviation Authority , accessed May 13, 2017 . 
5. ↑ Aircraft movements at all UK airports. (PDF; 157 kB) In: caa.co.uk. Civil Aviation Authority , accessed May 13, 2017 . 
6. ^ ^{A b c d} East Midlands Airport, Our History
7. ^ Aero, edition 201, year 1987.
8. ↑ Midlands Airport, History  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ^ East Midlands Airport. Fire and Rescue. In: eastmidlandsairport.com. East Midlands International Airport Limited, accessed September 13, 2014 . 
10. ^ Accident report B-737-400 G-OBME , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on November 4, 2015.