Lawas Airport
Lawas Airport Lapangan Terbang Lawas | |||||||||||
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 MASWings Twin Otter on the Lawas runway | |||||||||||
| Summary | |||||||||||
| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Owner | Government of Malaysia | ||||||||||
| Operator | Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad | ||||||||||
| Serves | Lawas | ||||||||||
| Location | Lawas, Sarawak, Malaysia | ||||||||||
| Time zone | MST (UTC+08:00) | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 5 ft (1.5 m) | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 04°50′57″N 115°24′10″E / 4.84917°N 115.40278°E | ||||||||||
| Map | |||||||||||
  WBGW Location in East Malaysia | |||||||||||
| Runways | |||||||||||
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| Source: AIP Malaysia[1][2] | |||||||||||
Lawas Airport (IATA: LWY, ICAO: WBGW)[3] is a short take-off and landing (STOL) airport serving Lawas, a town in Limbang Division, Sarawak, Malaysia.
A plan has been made to relocate the current airport to a new site, because the current site is considered unsafe. The airport is located near a river, and some land corrosion had been spotted along the riverbank. The proposed new airport will be able to accommodate ATR 72-500 aircraft operated by MASwings, and the airport will not only be used by people in Lawas, but also people near the surrounding Sarawak-Sabah border.
Airlines and destinations
[edit]| Airlines | Destinations |
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| AirBorneo | Ba'kelalan, Kota Kinabalu, Limbang, Miri |
Incidents and Accidents
[edit]- On 24 August 2011, a MASwings aircraft Twin Otter DHC6 broke off its front landing gear upon landing. All 16 passengers and two crew escaped unharmed in the incident.[4] The same aircraft would crash two years later as Flight 3002, killing two people.[5]
See also
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References
[edit]- ↑ AIP Malaysia: Index to Aerodromes at Department of Civil Aviation Malaysia
- ↑ "AIRPORTS IN SARAWAK". Ministry of Transport Sarawak (MOTS). Retrieved 26 October 2024.
- ↑ "Airport information for LWY" – via Great Circle Mapper.
- ↑ "18 survive crash-landing in Lawas". The Borneo Post. 25 August 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2017.
- ↑ "2 confirmed dead in Twin Otter crash at Kudat". Borneo Post Online. 2013-10-10. Retrieved 2026-05-21.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lawas Airport.
- Short Take-Off and Landing Airports (STOL) Archived 2018-11-25 at the Wayback Machine at Malaysia Airports Holdings Berhad
- Accident history for LWY at Aviation Safety Network
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