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Mount Isa Airport

Mount Isa Airport

Airport in Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia

Mount Isa Airport (IATA: ISA, ICAO: YBMA)[3] is an airport serving the western Queensland city of Mount Isa, Australia.[2] It is served by a variety of scheduled regional airlines, with flights to Brisbane, Townsville and Cairns as well as several other regional centres.

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The Royal Flying Doctor Service has one of its nine Queensland bases at Mount Isa Airport.[4]

Since 2005 the airport has been owned by Queensland Airports Limited, which also owns Townsville Airport, Longreach Airport and Gold Coast Airport.[5][6]

In the 2010–11 financial year,[1] Mount Isa Airport handled 217,525 passengers, a 25.1% increase over the previous year.[7]

In 2019, the airport was a base for relief efforts for the North West Queensland floods.[8]

Facilities

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[2]

Airlines and destinations

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Statistics

Mount Isa Airport was ranked 30th in Australia for the number of revenue passengers served in financial year 2010–2011.[1][7]

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Accidents and incidents

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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.[10] It remains the fifth-worst accident in Australia's civil aviation history.[11]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Fiscal year 1 July – 30 June
  2. [2]
    YBMA – Mount Isa (PDF). AIP En Route Supplement from Airservices Australia, effective 21 March 2024, Aeronautical Chart Archived 10 April 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  3. [3]
    "Mount Isa Airport (ISA / YBMA)". Aviation Safety Network.
  4. [4]
    "RFDS QLD Home Page". Royal Flying Doctor Service. Retrieved 17 April 2021.
  5. [5]
    "Mount Isa Airport". Queensland Airports. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
  6. [6]
    "About Mount Isa Airport". MountIsaAirport.com. Retrieved 2 August 2011.
  7. [7]
    "Airport Traffic Data 1985-86 to 2010-11". Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE). May 2012. Archived from the original on 24 March 2012. Retrieved 8 May 2012. Refers to "Regular Public Transport (RPT) operations only"
  8. [8]
    Barry, Derek. "RAAF unload jet fuel at Mount Isa for flood emergency". Collie Mail.
  9. [9]
    "Bonza heads to the Outback with new Mount Isa route". Australian Aviation. Retrieved 18 September 2023.
  10. [10]
    Vickers Viscount No. 416 – Operational Record. Retrieved 2011-08-25
  11. [11]
    Ten Worst Aircraft Crashes in Australia Archived 19 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2011-08-25
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