Mount Isa Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Mount Isa Airport Pty Ltd | ||||||||||
| Operator | Queensland Airports Limited | ||||||||||
| Serves | Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,121 ft / 342 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 20°39′50″S 139°29′19″E / 20.66389°S 139.48861°ECoordinates: 20°39′50″S 139°29′19″E / 20.66389°S 139.48861°E | ||||||||||
| Website | www.mountisaairport.com.au | ||||||||||
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| Revenue passengers | 217,525 |
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| Aircraft movements | 5,376 |
Mount Isa Airport (IATA: ISA, ICAO: YBMA) is an airport serving the western Queensland city of Mount Isa, Australia. It is served by a variety of scheduled regional airlines, with flights to Brisbane, Townsville and Cairns as well as several other regional centres.
Since 2005 the airport has been owned by Queensland Airports Limited, which also owns Townsville Airport, Longreach Airport and Gold Coast Airport.
In the 2010-2011 financial year, Mount Isa Airport handled 217,525 passengers, a 25.1% increase over the previous year.
The airport resides at an elevation of 1,121 ft (342 m) above sea level. It has one runway designated 16/34 with an asphalt surface measuring 2,560 m × 45 m (8,399 ft × 148 ft) and is 3.4 nautical miles (6.3 km; 3.9 mi) north of the city
Mount Isa Airport was ranked 30th in Australia for the number of revenue passengers served in financial year 2010-2011.
On 22 September 1966 a Vickers Viscount aircraft departed from Mount Isa Airport with twenty passengers for a flight to Brisbane via Longreach. Forty-four minutes after takeoff a fire started in one of the engines. The crew were unable to extinguish the fire or feather the propeller so made an emergency descent with the intention of landing at Winton, a town 225 NM (417 km; 259 mi) south-east of Mount Isa. The fire spread to the fuel tank and weakened the wing structure so that a large part of the left wing broke away. The aircraft crashed 12 mi (19 km) west of Winton. All on board were killed. It remains the fifth-worst accident in Australia's civil aviation history.
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