Makhachkala airport

Makhachkala Airport ; Аэропорт Махачкала;
Characteristics
ICAO code	URML
IATA code	MCX
Coordinates	42 ° 49 '1 " N , 47 ° 39' 8" E Coordinates: 42 ° 49 '1 " N , 47 ° 39' 8" E
Height above MSL	5 m (16 ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	22 km southeast of Makhachkala , ; 7 km south of Kaspiysk
Street
Local transport	taxi
Basic data
opening	February 3, 1927
operator	OAO Meschdunarodny Aeroport «Makhachkala»
Start-and runway
14/32	2640 m × 42 m cement concrete

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The Makhachkala (Uitasch) Airport ( Russian Аэропорт Махачкала (Уйташ ), IATA code MCX, ICAO code URML) is the international airport of Makhachkala in Dagestan . It is located south of the city of Kaspiysk on the Caspian Sea and is named after Amet-Chan Sultan .

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The airport is served by Aeroflot , Gazpromavia , NordStar , Pegasus Airlines , Pobeda , SCAT and UTair and connects the city primarily with Moscow , but also with Surgut , Saint Petersburg and Istanbul .

Incidents

Makhachkala Airport recorded the following incidents in its history:

On November 7, 1991, a Yakovlev Jak-40 ( registration number CCCP-87526) had an accident on Aeroflot flight 519 en route from Elista on approach to Makhachkala 23 km from the airport when it was flying into a hill with 51 people on board. Nobody survived the accident.

On 25 October 1994, a Yakovlev Yak-40 was the Donavia (RA 88254) traveling from Ashgabat via Makhachkala to Rostov-on-Don , after a stopover in Makhachkala kidnapped . The plane then returned to Makhachkala. The kidnappers demanded two million US dollars and a flight to Iran . Some of the passengers were allowed to leave the aircraft on the same day, the remainder after paying 800,000 of the two million US dollars on the following day, so that only the hijacker and a few crew members were on board the aircraft. Shortly after midnight on October 27, the crew members were also allowed to leave the aircraft. In the end, the kidnapper blew himself up with a self-made bomb.

On January 15, 2009, two military transport aircraft of the Ilyushin Il-76 type collided when one aircraft with the registration number RA-76825 took off and the second with the registration number RA-76827 landed at the same time. The wing of the landing aircraft collided with the fuselage of the aircraft taking off and a fire broke out. Three or four of the seven-man crew of the aircraft taking off were killed in the accident. The RA-76825 was destroyed; in the landing RA-76827 all 31 occupants survived and the aircraft could be repaired (see also aircraft collision of Makhachkala ) .