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Tenzing–Hillary Airport

Index Tenzing–Hillary Airport

Tenzing–Hillary Airport, also known as Lukla Airport, is a small airport in the town of Lukla, in Khumbu, Solukhumbu District, Province No. 1, eastern Nepal. [1]

45 relations: Air Dynasty, Airfield traffic pattern, Airliners.net, Airport, Altiport, Armed Police Force (Nepal), Asphalt, Asphalt concrete, Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal, De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter, Dornier Do 228, Edmund Hillary, Everest Base Camp, Go-around, Gorkha Airlines, Grade (slope), Harbin Y-12, Helicopter, History (U.S. TV network), Khumbu, Let L-410 Turbolet, List of airports in Nepal, Lukla, Mount Everest, Nepal, Nepal Airlines, Nepal Police, Phaplu Airport, Pilatus PC-6 Porter, Rumjatar Airport, Runway, Sherpa people, Sita Air, Solukhumbu District, STOL, Summit Air (Nepal), Summit Air Flight 409, Syangboche Airport, Tara Air, Tenzing Norgay, Tribhuvan International Airport, Unstabilized approach, Yeti Airlines, Yeti Airlines Flight 103, YouTube.

Air Dynasty

Air Dynasty Heli Service Pvt.

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Airfield traffic pattern

An airfield traffic pattern is a standard path followed by aircraft when taking off or landing, while maintaining visual contact with the airfield.

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Airliners.net

Airliners.net is an aviation website that includes an extensive photo database of aircraft and airports, as well as a forum catering to aviation enthusiasts.

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Airport

An airport is an aerodrome with extended facilities, mostly for commercial air transport.

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Altiport

An altiport is an aerodrome for small airplanes and helicopters, situated on or within mountainous terrain.

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Armed Police Force (Nepal)

The Armed Police Force of Nepal is a paramilitary Land warfare force tasked with counter-insurgency operations in Nepal.

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Asphalt

Asphalt, also known as bitumen, is a sticky, black, and highly viscous liquid or semi-solid form of petroleum.

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Asphalt concrete

Asphalt concrete (commonly called asphalt, blacktop, or pavement in North America, and tarmac, bitumen macadam or rolled asphalt in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland) is a composite material commonly used to surface roads, parking lots, airports, as well as the core of embankment dams.

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Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal

The Civil Aviation Authority of Nepal (CAAN, नेपाल नागरिक उड्डयन प्राधिकरण), an independent Nepali government body since 1998, is headquartered in Kathmandu.

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De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter

The de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter, currently marketed as the Viking Air DHC-6 Twin Otter, is a Canadian 19-passenger STOL (Short Takeoff and Landing) utility aircraft developed by de Havilland Canada and currently produced by Viking Air.

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Dornier Do 228

The Dornier Do 228 is a twin-turboprop STOL utility aircraft, manufactured by Dornier GmbH (later DASA Dornier, Fairchild-Dornier) from 1981 until 1998.

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Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary OSN (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist.

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Everest Base Camp

Everest Base Camp is either one of two base camps on opposite sides of Mount Everest (It could also be any Everest base camp on a given route, but this is less common since the two main routes became standardized).

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Go-around

A go around is an aborted landing of an aircraft that is on final approach.

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Gorkha Airlines

Gorkha Airlines Pvt.

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Grade (slope)

The grade (also called slope, incline, gradient, mainfall, pitch or rise) of a physical feature, landform or constructed line refers to the tangent of the angle of that surface to the horizontal.

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Harbin Y-12

The Harbin Y-12 is a high wing twin-engine turboprop utility aircraft built by Harbin Aircraft Industry Group (HAIG).

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Helicopter

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by rotors.

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History (U.S. TV network)

History (originally The History Channel from 1995 to 2008) is a history-based digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by A&E Networks, a joint venture between the Hearst Communications and the Disney–ABC Television Group division of the Walt Disney Company.

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Khumbu

Khumbu (also known as the Everest Region) is a region of northeastern Nepal on the Nepalese side of Mount Everest.

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Let L-410 Turbolet

The Let L-410 Turbolet is a twin-engine short-range transport aircraft, manufactured by the Czech aircraft manufacturer Let Kunovice (named Aircraft Industries since 2005), often used as an airliner.

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List of airports in Nepal

This is a list of airports in Nepal, sorted by location.

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Lukla

Lukla is a town in the Khumbu area of the Solukhumbu District in the Sagarmatha Zone of north-eastern Nepal.

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Mount Everest

Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmāthā and in Tibetan as Chomolungma, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.

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Nepal

Nepal (नेपाल), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal (सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल), is a landlocked country in South Asia located mainly in the Himalayas but also includes parts of the Indo-Gangetic Plain.

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Nepal Airlines

Nepal Airlines Corporation (नेपाल वायुसेवा निगम), formerly known as Royal Nepal Airlines (शाही नेपाल वायुसेवा) is the flag carrier of Nepal.

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Nepal Police

The police of Nepal is responsible for maintaining law and order and prevention of crime according to the constitution of Nepal and is under the authority of the Ministry of Home Affairs.

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Phaplu Airport

Phaplu Airport is an airport serving Phaplu (also spelled Phaphlu), Salleri, the district headquarter of Solukhumbu District of Province No. 1 in Nepal.

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Pilatus PC-6 Porter

The Pilatus PC-6 Porter is a single-engined STOL utility aircraft designed by Pilatus Aircraft of Switzerland.

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Rumjatar Airport

Rumjatar Airport is an airport serving Rumjatar, a village in the Okhaldhunga district of the Sagarmatha zone in Nepal.

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Runway

According to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a runway is a "defined rectangular area on a land aerodrome prepared for the landing and takeoff of aircraft".

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Sherpa people

Sherpa is one of the major ethnic groups native to the most mountainous regions of Nepal, as well as certain areas of China, Bhutan, India, and the Himalayas.

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Sita Air

Sita Air is an airline based in Sinamangal, Kathmandu, Nepal; The airline's main base is Tribhuvan International Airport with hubs at Pokhara Airport and Nepalgunj Airport.

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Solukhumbu District

Solukhumbu District (सोलुखुम्बु जिल्ला, Sherpa: Wylie: shar khum bu dzong kha), is one of 14 districts of Province No. 1 of eastern Nepal.

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STOL

STOL is an acronym for a short takeoff and landing aircraft, which have short runway requirements for takeoff and landing.

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Summit Air (Nepal)

Summit Air (previously known as Goma Air) is an airline based in Kathmandu, Nepal.

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Summit Air Flight 409

On 27 May 2017, a Let L-410 Turbolet operating as Summit Air Flight 409 crashed short of the runway whilst attempting to land at Tenzing–Hillary Airport in Nepal.

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Syangboche Airport

Syangboche Airport also known as Syangboche Airstrip is an unpaved airstrip serving the village of Namche Bazaar, in Solukhumbu district, Nepal.

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Tara Air

Tara Air Pvt.

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Tenzing Norgay

Tenzing Norgay GM OSN (tendzin norgyé; 29 May 1914 – 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi and often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepali Sherpa mountaineer.

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Tribhuvan International Airport

Tribhuvan International Airport (TIA) (त्रिभुवन अन्तर्राष्ट्रिय विमानस्थल) is an international airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, located in the Kathmandu Valley about from the city center of Kathmandu.

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Unstabilized approach

An unstabilized approach is an approach during which an aircraft does not maintain at least one of the following variables stable: speed, descent rate, vertical/lateral flight path and in landing configuration, or receive a landing clearance by a certain altitude.

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Yeti Airlines

Yeti Airlines Domestic Pvt.

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Yeti Airlines Flight 103

Yeti Airlines Flight 103 was a De Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter Series 300 registered as 9N-AFE.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing–Hillary_Airport

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