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    Tenzing-Hillary Airport (Nepali: तेन्जिङ हिलारी विमानस्थल, IATA: LUA, ICAO: VNLK), also known as Lukla Airport, is a domestic airport and altiport in...
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    him. In January 2008, Lukla Airport was renamed TenzingHillary Airport in honour of the pair and their achievement. Tenzing Montes is the name of an icy...
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    more whacks with my ice-axe and Tenzing and I stood on top of Everest. Tenzing wrote in his 1955 autobiography that Hillary took the first step onto the...
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    Flight 409 crashed short of the runway whilst attempting to land at TenzingHillary Airport in Nepal. It was on final approach when the aircraft hit trees...
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    Tabletop runway (category Airport infrastructure)
    27 May 2017, Summit Air Flight 409 stalled on final approach to TenzingHillary Airport, subsequently crashing 122 metres (400 ft) below the threshold...
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    was a domestic flight in Nepal that crashed on final approach to Tenzing-Hillary Airport in the town of Lukla in eastern Nepal on 8 October 2008. The De...
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  • The Himalayan Times. April 2019. Retrieved 1 April 2019. "Lukla Tenzing Hillary Airport". FlightRadar24. Retrieved 21 January 2020. "Tara Air to merge...
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  • 639 code Lai (surname) (賴), Chinese, sometimes romanised as Lua Tenzing-Hillary Airport (IATA code), in Lukla, Nepal One of the Duff Islands Lua (goddess)...
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    Kathmandu. The aircraft had left Tribhuvan International Airport, bound for Tenzing-Hillary Airport. On 25 September 2011, a Beechcraft 1900D operating as...
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    operated by Sita Air from Tribhuvan International Airport in Nepal's capital Kathmandu to Tenzing-Hillary Airport in Lukla. On 28 September 2012, the Dornier...
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  • This is a list of airports in Nepal, sorted by location. The oldest of the country's three international airports, and the hub of air services in the...
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    Lukla (section Airport)
    first tarmac road from Kathmandu to Lukla. Lukla is served by the Tenzing-Hillary Airport. Weather permitting, twin-engine Dornier 228s and de Havilland...
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    and IATA, this airport is assigned LUA by the FAA, but has no designation from the IATA (which assigned LUA to Tenzing-Hillary Airport in Lukla, Nepal)...
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  • highest civilian airports, situated at a minimum elevation of 2,500 m (8,202 ft) above mean sea level. List of lowest airports Airport information for...
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    "Annapurna Express". Yeti Airlines. Retrieved 1 April 2019. "Lukla Tenzing Hillary Airport". FlightRadar24. Retrieved 21 January 2020. "Fleet Details". Yeti...
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    Bazar) Lamidanda Airport (Lamidanda, Khotang) Tenzing-Hillary Airport (Lukla, Solukhumbu) Phaplu Airport (Phaplu, Solukhumbu) Rumjatar Airport (Rumjatar, Okhladhunga)...
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  • List of shortest runways (category Lists of airports)
    This is a list of the shortest airport runways in the world. While most modern commercial aircraft require a paved runway of at least 6,000 feet (1,800 m)...
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    the world's highest and dangerous airports such as Tenzing-Hillary Airport in Nepal, and Paro Airport in Bhutan. Daulat Beg Oldi in Ladakh is the oldest...
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  • minutes and 50 seconds, Delsalle lifted off and returned to the Tenzing-Hillary Airport at Lukla, Nepal. This accomplishment had required extensive testing...
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    traveling on a flight between Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, and Tenzing-Hillary Airport in Lukla, Nepal. Twenty minutes after take-off...
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    Clear Lake City (CLC) and Houston Intercontinental Airport, now George Bush Intercontinental Airport, in a scheduled passenger airline shuttle operation...
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    helicopters make occasional cargo flights. The nearest open airport is TenzingHillary Airport, located 13 km south of the town. Namche Bazaar is popular...
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  • near Aberdeen, Scotland Tenzing-Hillary Airport, aka. Lukla Airport, sometimes also called Mt. Everest airport, a Nepalese airport Everest (restaurant),...
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  • airline's main base is Tribhuvan International Airport with hubs at Pokhara Airport and Nepalgunj Airport. The airline received its air operators certificate...
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  • destinations with its two Airbus A320 from its hub at Tribhuvan International Airport. Nepal Airlines acquired two Airbus A330-200 jets in 2018. With these four...
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  • crashed short of the runway threshold while attempting a landing at TenzingHillary Airport in Nepal. The captain and the first officer died as a result of...
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    debate as to whether they were the first to reach the top. Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made the first documented ascent of Everest in 1953, using...
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  • List of airports by IATA airport code: A - B - C - D - E - F - G - H - I - J - K - L - M - N - O - P - Q - R - S - T - U - V - W - X - Y - Z The DST column...
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  • of eponymously named airports. It includes the name of the airport, the facility's location, and the person after whom the airport is named. Astor Piazzolla...
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    including Lambert and Tenzing was forced to turn back at a slightly lower point. The following year Tenzing returned with Edmund Hillary to reach the summit...
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