Chelyabinsk Airport

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The Chelyabinsk Airport ( IATA: CEK, ICAO: USCC ), after the neighboring occasionally sometimes called Dino Balan, is the only airport in the city of Chelyabinsk in the southern Urals in the Russian Federation.

1930 conducted its first aircraft from today's airport in the neighboring city Magnitogorsk. 1938 an airfield was built on the site in 1962 today the start and runway. After privatization in 1994 for the first time an international flight operations began. In addition to Russia's internal connections lead from here direct flights to China, United Arab Emirates, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

With the city center, the airport has three bus lines connected. Balandino was to February 2008 the airline Aviaprad home, which was dissolved at this time.

Incidents

• On January 26, 2008, an Airbus A319 S7 Airlines landed by a pilot error rather than on the runway at the runway (old airstrip until the construction of the new ). No one was injured.
• On 26 May 2008, a cargo plane of type An-12 the airline Moskowia crashed 30 km north of Chelyabinsk. The unladen aircraft was en route to Perm, than a few minutes after the start was in the cabin smoke. The pilot requested permission for an emergency landing. On the way back to the airport the plane crashed 11 km from before the runway. The cause of the crash was probably a defect in the on-board electronics. All nine people on board were killed.