Uytash Airport Explained
| Makhachkala International Airport "Uytash" |
| Nativename: | Махачкалинский международный аэропорт "Уйташ" |
| Image2-Width: | 250 |
| Iata: | MCX |
| Icao: | URML |
| Pushpin Map: | Russia Dagestan#European Russia#Europe |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the airport in Dagestan##Location of the airport in Russia##Location of the airport in Europe |
| Pushpin Label: | МСХ |
| Type: | Public |
| Owner: | Russian Federation |
| Operator: | Civil Government |
| City-Served: | Makhachkala |
| Location: | Makhachkala, Dagestan Republic, Russia |
| Elevation-F: | 12 |
| Elevation-M: | 4 |
| Timezone: | Moscow Time |
| Utc: | +4 |
| Coordinates: | 42.8168°N 47.6523°W |
| Website: | www.mcx.aero |
| Metric-Rwy: | y |
| R1-Number: | 14/32 |
| R1-Length-F: | 8,662 |
| R1-Length-M: | 2,640 |
| R1-Surface: | Concrete |
| Stat-Year: | 2018 |
| Stat1-Header: | Passengers |
| Stat1-Data: | 1,290,000 |
| Footnotes: | Sources: Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (see also provisional 2018 statistics)[1] |
Makhachkala Uytash Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Махачкала Уйташ) is a civil airport located near Makhachkala and Kaspiysk cities. It is named after Amet-khan Sultan, World War II fighter pilot, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. The naming was found controversial by the Crimean Tatars, with whom Amet-khan openly affiliated, as an attempt to detatarize his origins.[2]
South East Airlines (formerly Dagestan Airlines) had its head office on the property of the airport.[3] [4]
Accidents and incidents
- On 15 January 2009, 4 people died when two Ilyushin Il-76 aircraft collided and caught fire.
- On 4 December 2010, South East Airlines Flight 372, a Tupolev Tu-154M carrying 160 passengers and 8 crew en route to Makhachkala, crash landed at Domodedovo International Airport, Moscow, due to all engines failing. Two of the 160 passengers died.
- On 29 October 2023, a violent mob stormed the tarmac as a Red Wings Airlines flight from Tel Aviv, Israel arrived. Protestors shouted anti-Israel slogans and attempted to board the plane but were not successful.[5] Eventually, authorities closed the airport and diverted flights to nearby cities.[6] This event was occurred against the backdrop of further anti-Jewish unrest in the North Caucasus. Russian authorities of Dagestan blamed the "Utro Dagestana" channel, established by Ilya Ponomarev, for organizing the mob and "destabilising the situation in Dagestan by stirring up interethnic and interreligious hatred come from our enemy, the foes of our country".[7]
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Notes and References
- Web site: Объемы перевозок через аэропорты России . ru . Transportation volumes at Russian airports . . favt.ru . 23 October 2018.
- Web site: Страницы крымской истории. Памяти Амет-Хана Султана. Крым.Реалии. February 2018 . ru. 2019-12-06.
- "Directory: World airlines." Flight International. 23–29 March 2004. 59.
- "Главная." South East Airlines. Retrieved on 24 June 2010. "Россия, Республика Дагестан, г. Махачкала, аэропорт ."
- Web site: 2023-10-29 . Hundreds storm airport in Russia in antisemitic riot over arrival of plane from Israel . 2023-10-30 . AP News . en.
- News: Josh . Pennington . Pierre . Meilhan . Ehlinger . Maija . Gold . Hadas . Anti-Israel mob storms through Russian airport as flight from Tel Aviv lands . 30 October 2023 . CNN . 30 October 2023.
- News: Dagestan governor blames Ukraine for inciting pogrom at Makhachkala airport . 30 October 2023 . Novaya Gazeta . 30 October 2023.
