Mirny Airport

Аэропорт Мирный
Summary
Airport typePublic/Military
OperatorAlrosa Mirny Air Enterprise
ServesMirny, Sakha Republic, Russia
Hub forAlrosa Mirny Air Enterprise
Elevation AMSL1,155 ft / 352 m
Coordinates62°32′04″N 114°01′20″E / 62.53444°N 114.02222°E / 62.53444; 114.02222
Maps
Sakha Republic in Russia
Sakha Republic in Russia
MJZ is located in Sakha Republic
MJZ
MJZ
Location of the airport in the Sakha Republic
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
07/25 9,187 2,800 Concrete
GCM,[1] STV[2]

Mirny Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Мирный; Yakut: Мирнэй аэропорда) (IATA: MJZ, ICAO: UERR) is an airport in Yakutia, Russia, located 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) east of the mining town of Mirny. It handles medium-sized aircraft and supports 24-hour flight operations. Mirny airport serves as a diversion airport on Polar route 3.[3][4] The airport is home base for Alrosa Mirny Air Enterprise. 329,446 passengers were transited by this airport in 2017.

The airport is home to the 17th Independent Transport Aviation Squadron of the Russian Aerospace Forces.[5]

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
ALROSAIrkutsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo, Moscow–Domodedovo, Novosibirsk, Polyarny, Yakutsk, Yekaterinburg
NordStarKrasnoyarsk–Yemelyanovo
S7 Airlines Novosibirsk[6]
Yakutia AirlinesKhabarovsk, Yakutsk

Accidents and incidents

  • On 1 November 2009, an Ilyushin Il-76 cargo jet of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs crashed shortly after take-off from Mirny airport, killing all 11 people on board. It was on a repositioning flight to Irkutsk Airport after delivering cargo to Mirny. The Il-76 banked to the right and crashed into the ground near the Mir mine.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ Airport information for UERR at Great Circle Mapper.
  2. ↑ Airport information for Mirny Airport at Transport Search website.
  3. ↑ "Figure 3. Boeing-Conducted Airport Safety And Operational Assessments". www.boeing.com. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
  4. ↑ "Figure 1. New Cross-Polar Routes Via The North Polar Region". www.boeing.com. Retrieved 2019-02-08.
  5. ↑ "Russian Air Force - Mirny (UERR)". Scramble.nl. Retrieved 22 December 2022.
  6. ↑ L, J (1 December 2014). "S7 Airlines Adds Novosibirsk Domestic Routes in S15". Airline Route. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
  7. ↑ Экипаж не смог справиться с сильным креном Ил-76, retrieved 2019-02-08
  8. ↑ Berry, Lynn for Associated Press. "Russian military cargo plane crashes on takeoff, killing all 11 crew members on board" Archived 2009-11-02 at the Wayback Machine. Dailypress.com, 1 November 2009.



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