Lede Kalumbang Airport ( id, Bandar Udara Lede Kalumbang) , formerly Tambolaka Airport, is an airport in

Tambolaka Kota Tambolaka (Tambolaka city) is the administrative capital of the Southwest Sumba Regency (''Kabupaten Sumba Barat Daya''), on the island of Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. Tambolaka was in fact the name of the airport, the re ...

Southwest Sumba Regency Southwest Sumba Regency ( id, Kabupaten Sumba Barat Daya) is a regency on Sumba Island in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the In ...

East Nusa Tenggara East Nusa Tenggara ( id, Nusa Tenggara Timur – NTT; pt, Sonda Oriental) is the southernmost province of Indonesia. It comprises the eastern portion of the Lesser Sunda Islands, facing the Indian Ocean in the south and the Flores Sea in the nor ...

, Indonesia. It inaugurated a new terminal in 2015, which improved passenger services from the previous terminal. A cafe and shops are available at the terminal, and there are a car park and some taxi stands outside the terminal.

Terminals, airlines and destinations

Accidents and incidents

* On February 11, 2006, Adam Air Flight 782, registration number PK-KKE, lost navigational and communications systems twenty minutes into a flight from

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Makassar Makassar (, mak, ᨆᨀᨔᨑ, Mangkasara’, ) is the capital of the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi. It is the largest city in the region of Eastern Indonesia and the country's fifth-largest urban center after Jakarta, Surabaya, Med ...

South Sulawesi South Sulawesi ( id, Sulawesi Selatan) is a province in the southern peninsula of Sulawesi. The Selayar Islands archipelago to the south of Sulawesi is also part of the province. The capital is Makassar. The province is bordered by Central Sula ...

. The plane was subsequently flown into a radar "black spot" and was lost for several hours, eventually making an emergency landing at Tambolaka Airport, Sumba (on a different island 481 km away from their intended destination, and southeast from their origin, instead of north-east). The pilot in that incident was fired. Adam Air broke multiple safety regulations, including removing an aircraft before it was due for inspection by aviation authorities.B737 makes emergency landing after nav and comm systems failure
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- retrieved March 4, 2007.

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