Kanpur Civil Aerodrome Template:Airport codes[1][2] is an aerodrome located inside Kanpur Cantonment and is 5 kilometres east of Kanpur city. It is used by small aircraft of the flying club of Kanpur, the DGCA, the local flying school,[3] and the NCC Air Wing.
Incident and accidents
On the morning of 18 May 1996, a 19-seater Archana Airways L-410 aircraft operating on the Delhi - Kanpur sector touched down late and could not be stopped within the available runway length, ending up beyond the runway. The aircraft hit the boundary wall of the airport and came to a halt. The aircraft sustained major damages, but there was no fire and no injury to persons on board the aircraft.[4]
References
- ↑ VIKA - Kanpur Airport | SkyVector.
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- ↑ Civil Aviation Aircraft Accident Summary for the year 1996. DGCA. Retrieved 10 August 2014.
See also
Template:Airports in India Template:Kanpur Template:Kanpur division topics