Kudat Airport
| Kudat Airport Lapangan Terbang Kudat |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | WBKT |
| IATA code | KUD |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 3 m (10 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 1 km north of Kudat |
| Basic data | |
| operator | Malaysia Airports SDN BHD |
| Terminals | 1 |
| Start-and runway | |
| 04/22 | 730 m × 18 m asphalt |
The Kudat Airport (engl. Kudat Airport , IATA code : KUD, ICAO code : WBKT) is the airport of the city of Kudat , in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo .
The airport is a civil domestic airport. Because of its extremely short runway of only 730 m, it is one of the so-called STOL airports (Short Take-Off and Landing Airports) . It is therefore only served by smaller MASwings aircraft. Malaysia Airlines flights are processed as code share . Connections exist to and from Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan .
history
During the Second World War , the Japanese army built an airfield in Kudat. The workforce - consisting of locals and forced laborers from Java, Indonesia - used corals as a base layer for the runway. Many Indonesians died of disease and starvation during construction. In 1945, B-25 bombers of the United States Far East Air Force attacked the airfield several times, rendering it unusable. Today's airport, operated by Malaysia Airport Berhad , was partly built on the remains of the former Japanese airfield.
Incidents
On October 10, 2013, a De Havilland Canada DHC-6-310 Twin Otter of MASwings with the aircraft registration number 9M-MDM crashed on the flight from Kota Kinabalu during a failed go - around shortly behind the airfield. Two people died in the accident and four others were injured.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the airport operator
- ^ Accident report 9M-MDM, Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on June 16, 2016.
Web links
More pictures
Apron with runway
Terminal building and control tower
Check-in counter
Apron vehicle
