Lawas Airport Explained

Lawas Airport
Nativename:Lapangan Terbang Lawas
Iata:LWY
Icao:WBGW
Type:Public
Owner:Government of Malaysia
Operator:Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad
City-Served:Lawas
Location:Lawas, Sarawak, Malaysia
Timezone:MST
Elevation-F:5
Coordinates:4.8492°N 115.4028°W
Pushpin Map:Malaysia East
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in East Malaysia
Pushpin Label:WBGW
Metric-Rwy:y
R1-Number:01/19
R1-Length-M:686
R1-Surface:Bitumen
Footnotes:Source: AIP Malaysia[1]

Lawas Airport is a Short Take-off and Landing (STOL) airport serving Lawas, a town in Limbang Division, Sarawak, Malaysia.

A plan has been made to relocate the current airport to a new site, because the current site is considered unsafe. The airport is located near a river, and some land corrosion had been spotted along the riverbank. The proposed new airport will be able to accommodate ATR 72-500 aircraft operated by MASwings, and the airport will not only be used by people in Lawas, but also people near the surrounding Sarawak-Sabah border.

Incidents and Accidents

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References

  1. http://aip.dca.gov.my/aip%20pdf/AD/AD4/Index%20To%20Aerodromes.pdf AIP Malaysia: Index to Aerodromes
  2. News: 18 survive crash-landing in Lawas . The Borneo Post. 25 August 2011. 3 July 2017.

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