Kanpur Airport

Kanpur Airport
Kanpur Airport

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IATA: KNUICAO: VIKA
KNU is located in India
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KNU
Location of airport in India
Summary
Airport type Partially Public
Owner Indian Air Force
Operator Airports Authority of India
Serves Kanpur, Unnao, Etawah, Kanpur Dehat, Hamirpur & Fatehpur in Uttar Pradesh
Location Kanpur, INDIA
Elevation AMSL 410 ft / 124 m
Coordinates 26°24′10″N 80°24′44″E / 26.40278°N 80.41222°E / 26.40278; 80.41222
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
09/27 (common use) 9,000 2,743 Concrete/Asphalt
01/19 (not for civil use)

Kanpur Airport (IATA: KNUICAO: VIKA) is an airport that was originally designated for the Indian Air Force. In the 1970s, flights operated from this airport regularly to Delhi, Ahmedabad, Allahabad, Kolkata, Banglore, Chennai, Pune and Mumbai. For a long time, passengers of Kanpur, Unnao and Fatehpur have had to travel about 80 kilometers (50 mi) northwards to Amausi Airport in Lucknow, a 2–3 hours drive, for taking a flight to New Delhi, Mumbai or overseas. The Civil Air Terminal of Kanpur Airport was re-opened in December 2004 and since then regular flights are operational on this airport.

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Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Air India Regional Delhi, Kolkata

Incidents and accidents

Kanpur has the distinction of having 3 airstrips located respectively at the Chakeri Airport (having 9,000 ft (2,700 m) runway), Civil Airport located at Kanpur Cantt., and the IIT Airstrip located at IIT Kanpur.

On Wednesday 20th July 2011,The AI flight 9801 was headed from Delhi to Kolkata via Kanpur had 59 passengers on board. The plane, after it touched ground, did not stop within the safe distance and overshot into the slush at the end of the runway.As per reports, the plane, a 70 Seater CRJ-700, had a rough landing even though the weather was clear, with a visibility of 2000 meters.

Author Chetan Bhagat, who was on the flight, tweeted, "Emergency landing as plane skidded off runway into wet mud. Lucky save. Evacuations on now." Mr Bhagat also said, "The plane wheels are barely visible, dug deep into mud. Everyone's out now. Rattled but safe."

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