North Caicos Airport
| North Caicos International Airport | |||
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| Characteristics | |||
| ICAO code | MBNC | ||
| IATA code | NCA | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Height above MSL | 4 m (13 ft ) | ||
| Transport links | |||
| Distance from the city center | 4 km northwest of Bottle Creek, 4 km southeast of Whitby |
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| Basic data | |||
| operator | Turks & Caicos Islands Airports Authority | ||
| Terminals | 1 | ||
| Start-and runway | |||
| 08/26 | 1278 m × 22 m asphalt | ||
The North Caicos Airport , including North Caicos International ( ICAO code : MBNC , IATA code : NCA ), on the island of North Caicos is a national airport in the Turks and Caicos Islands . It is operated by the Turks & Caicos Islands Airports Authority (TCIAA).
The airport is currently (as of October 2017) not operated in scheduled flight operations. It has a 1,278-meter-long asphalt runway.
Incidents
- On the evening of 6 February 2007, a crashed Beechcraft 200C Super King Air of Air Turks and Caicos immediately after the start about two kilometers east of the airport in the shallow waters of the lagoon. The pilot was fatally injured in the accident; four of the five passengers suffered serious injuries and one passenger suffered minor injuries. The cause of the crash was probably a flight error by the pilot due to an impairment of his spatial orientation due to darkness and possibly also alcohol consumption .
Web links
- Airports Authority - Turks and Caicos Islands. Turks & Caicos Islands Airports Authority(English).
- North Caicos Airport aeronautical map on SkyVector.com
- Airport data North Caicos Airport in the Aviation Safety Network .
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
Individual evidence
- ^ North Caicos International Airport. In: tcicaa.com. Turks and Caicos Islands Civil Aviation Authority, accessed March 20, 2020 .
- ^ North Caicos Airport (NCA). In: visittci.com. Visit Turks and Caicos Islands Limited, accessed January 24, 2019 .
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report Beechcraft King Air VQ-TIU in the Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 21, 2020.
