Heho Airport ( my, ဟဲဟိုးလေဆိပ်) is an
airport serving
Heho,
a town in
Kalaw Township,
Taunggyi District,
Shan State,
Myanmar
Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John C. Wells, Joh ...
. It is the main airport serving
Inle Lake and
Taunggyi the former of the top tourist destinations of Myanmar.
History
The airport served as an airbase both for the Allies and the Japanese during World War II. The airbase was heavily bombed by the Allies. Evidence of aircraft bunker
revetment
A revetment in stream restoration, river engineering or coastal engineering is a facing of impact-resistant material (such as stone, concrete, sandbags, or wooden piles) applied to a bank or wall in order to absorb the energy of incoming water
...
s and bomb craters can still be seen on the southern end of the airfield, especially noticeable from the air.
Facilities
The airport resides at an
elevation of above
mean sea level. It has one
runway designated 18/36 with an
asphalt surface measuring .
The original airport had a runway length of . It was recently expanded to accommodate jet aircraft.
Airlines and destinations
Image:Old Heho Airport.jpg, Old Building of Heho Airport
Image:Heho Airport entrance, Myanmar.jpg, Main Entrance of Heho Airport
Image:Heho Airport aerial view.JPG, Aerial view of Heho Airport
Accidents and incidents
* On 25 December 2012,
Air Bagan Flight 11
Air Bagan Flight 011 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight of a Fokker 100 twinjet from Yangon to Heho, Myanmar. On 25 December 2012, the aircraft crash-landed short of the runway at Heho Airport in fog, coming to a stop in a paddy field a ...
, crashed short of the runway at Heho Airport. One passenger on board the aircraft plus one person on the ground were killed in the accident.
* On 21 June 1987, a Myanmar Airways Fokker F-27 Friendship 200 crashed into a mountain soon after take-off from Heho Airport, killing all 45 people on board.
* 11 October 1987, a Burma Airways Fokker F-27 Friendship 500 crashed into a 1500 feet high mountain, killing all 49 people on board. This was Myanmar's second-deadliest air disaster, surpassed only by the
crash of a Myanmar Air Force Shaanxi Y-8 in 2017, which killed 122 people.
Thirty-six foreigners—14 Americans, seven Swiss citizens, five Britons, four Australians, three West Germans, two French citizens and one Thai—were among the dead.
References
External links
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Airports in Myanmar
Shan State