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Umeå Airport is an airport located on the southern outskirts of the city of
Skydiving plane crash kills nine in Sweden
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Umeå
Umeå ( , , , locally ; South Westrobothnian: ;). fi, Uumaja; sju, Ubmeje; sma, Upmeje; se, Ubmi) is a city in northeast Sweden. It is the seat of Umeå Municipality and the capital of Västerbotten County.
Situated on the Ume River, U ...
, Sweden. As of 2019, it is the seventh-largest airport in Sweden. It had 960,351 passengers in 2019.
By road, the airport is located about from Umeå city centre.
History
The airport was inaugurated in May 1962, but had its first flight in 1961.Airlines and destinations
Passenger
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Accidents and incidents
*On 21 September 1992, an Air Sweden IAI-1124 Westwind registered as SE-DLK was destroyed by a fire. The plane was departing toArvidsjaur
Arvidsjaur (; sju, Árviesjávrrie; ) is a locality and the seat of Arvidsjaur Municipality in Norrbotten County, province of Lapland, Sweden with 4,635 inhabitants in 2010.
Arvidsjaur is a center for the European car industry. During the winte ...
when takeoff was aborted due to an engine failure. None of the seven occupants were killed or injured, but the aircraft was written off.
* On 14 July 2019, a GippsAero GA8 Airvan
The Mahindra Airvan 8 (formerly the GippsAero GA8 Airvan 8) is a single-engined utility aircraft manufactured by GippsAero (formerly named Gippsland Aeronautics) of Victoria, Australia. It can seat up to eight people, including the pilot.
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aircraft with crew and skydivers lost control and crashed steeply into the ground. It had taken off from Umeå Airport. All nine on board died./ref>
See also
*List of the largest airports in the Nordic countries
This is a list of the 100 busiest airports in the Nordic countries by passengers per year, aircraft movements per year and freight and mail tonnes per year.
The list also includes yearly statistics for the busiest metropolitan airport systems and ...
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Umea Airport Airports in Sweden Umeå Buildings and structures in Umeå International airports in Sweden