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{{Short description|Airport in Aizawl, India}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=July 2018}}
{{Infobox airport
| name = Lengpui Airport (Lengpui Ṭumhmun)
| image = Lengpui Airport Building.JPG
| image-width = 300
| caption =
| caption2 =
| IATA = AJL
| ICAO = VELP
| pushpin_map = India Mizoram#India
| pushpin_map_caption = Location of the airport in India
| pushpin_label = '''AJL'''
| pushpin_label_position = right
| type = Public
| owner = [[Airports Authority of India]]
| operator = [[Airports Authority of India]]
| owner-oper =
| city-served = [[Aizawl]]
| location = [[Lengpui]], [[Mizoram]], [[India]]
| elevation-f = 1,328.4
| elevation-m = 405
| coordinates = {{Coord|23|50|18.39|N|092|37|13.29|E|region:IN-MZ_type:airport|display=inline,title}}
| website =
| metric-elev = y
| metric-rwy = y
| r1-number = 17/35
| r1-length-f = 8,200
| r1-length-m = 2,500
| r1-surface = [[Asphalt]]
| stat-year = April 2019 - May 2020
| stat1-header = Passengers movements
| stat1-data = 23,086 ({{decrease}}-42.0%)
| stat2-header = Aircraft movements
| stat2-data = 258 ({{decrease}}-36.5%)
| footnotes = [[Airports Authority of India|AAI]]<ref name="traffic_stats1">{{cite web|url=https://www.aai.aero/sites/default/files/traffic-news/Mar2k18annex3.pdf|title=Traffic News for the month of March 2018: Annexure-III|work=[[Airports Authority of India]]|date=1 May 2018|access-date=1 May 2018|page=3}}</ref><ref name="traffic_stats2">{{cite web|url=https://www.aai.aero/sites/default/files/traffic-news/Mar2k18annex2.pdf|title=Traffic News for the month of March 2018: Annexure-II|work=[[Airports Authority of India]]|date=1 May 2018|access-date=1 May 2018|page=3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501224637/https://www.aai.aero/sites/default/files/traffic-news/Mar2k18annex2.pdf|archive-date=1 May 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="traffic_stats3">{{cite web|url=https://www.aai.aero/sites/default/files/traffic-news/Mar2k18annex4.pdf|title=Traffic News for the month of March 2018: Annexure-IV|work=[[Airports Authority of India]]|date=1 May 2018|access-date=1 May 2018|page=3|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501224509/https://www.aai.aero/sites/default/files/traffic-news/Mar2k18annex4.pdf|archive-date=1 May 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="traffic_stats4">{{cite web|url=http://www.aai.aero/traffic_news/Mar2k17annex3.pdf|title=Traffic News for the month of March 2017: Annexure-III|work=[[Airports Authority of India]]|date=27 April 2017|access-date=27 April 2017|page=3|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170428052950/http://www.aai.aero/traffic_news/Mar2k17annex3.pdf|archive-date=28 April 2017}}</ref><ref name="traffic_stats5">{{cite web|url=http://www.aai.aero/traffic_news/Mar2k17annex2.pdf|title=Traffic News for the month of March 2017: Annexure-II|work=[[Airports Authority of India]]|date=27 April 2017|access-date=27 April 2017|page=3|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170428050942/http://www.aai.aero/traffic_news/Mar2k17annex2.pdf|archive-date=28 April 2017}}</ref>
}}

'''Lengpui Airport''' {{airport codes|AJL|VELP}} ([[Mizo language|Mizo]]: ''Lengpui Ṭumhmun'') is a domestic airport in [[Aizawl]], [[Mizoram]], [[India]]. The airport is connected by flights to [[Kolkata]], Guwahati and [[Imphal Airport|Imphal]] and is located at a distance of 32 km from [[Aizawl]], the capital of [[Mizoram]]. Lengpui Airport is the first large airport in the country to be built by the State Government.<ref>{{cite web |title=AAI to handle Mizoram's Lengpui airport |url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/economy/logistics/AAI-to-handle-Mizoram%E2%80%99s-Lengpui-airport/article20588698.ece |website=The Hindu |access-date=14 February 2019}}</ref>

==History==
[[File:First trial flight for Lengpui Airport.jpg|thumb|left|The very first trial flight at Lengpui Airport on 1999 operated by the then Indian Airlines using its Boeing 737-200 aircraft.]]
The airport was constructed at a cost of ₹ 979 millions<ref>{{cite news|title=Advani inaugurates Lengpui airport|url=http://www.nenanews.com/OT%20Dec22-Jan6,99/oh13.htm|access-date=14 August 2012|newspaper=NENA NEWS|date=22 December 1998 – 6 January 1999|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206233613/http://www.nenanews.com/OT%20Dec22-Jan6,99/oh13.htm|archive-date=6 February 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> and was completed in a record time of two years and two months. The construction work started in December 1995 and completed in February 1998. The Airport is expected to be able to cater to 300 incoming and outgoing passengers.<ref>{{cite web|title=LENGPUI AIRPORT|url=http://mizopwd.nic.in/project/lengpui.htm|publisher=Mizoram PWD|access-date=14 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427080636/http://mizopwd.nic.in/project/lengpui.htm|archive-date=27 April 2012|url-status=dead}}</ref> Before the construction of this airport, Aizawl was {{convert|130|km|abbr=on|0}} from the nearest railway head at [[Bairabi]] and {{convert|205|km|abbr=on|0}} from the nearest airport at [[Silchar]]. With regards to land acquisition it has been found out that about 65 percent of the area acquired, belonged to some high government officials and political leaders at Aizawl who started buying plots from people in Lengpui village at very low prices. They then donated the land to the government for the airport for which the rich persons got much more compensation as donors than the actual farmers.<ref>{{cite web|last=Pranami|first=Garg|title=Lengpui Airport: The Veiled and The Real Victims|url=https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&q=cache:sDBUTfD9E14J:onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/NESRC/Pranami/LENGPUIPRANAMI.doc+&hl=en&pid=bl&srcid=ADGEESjgfrgO4HsB32Vi0nCLCsflaIY1TUkbjg3wXZNfUbb3mwyWIjIX7I4lsK7emn4PkUjVoOfAmsULc_GZnxsfMbAfmmfkJKSiFlelhdmGwEdIlgk_4hvxA41d7-WzlH4CJutztTUS&sig=AHIEtbRQTXI7fTzX11ETkU_4PRQKTuXCqg|access-date=4 September 2012}}</ref>
Previously, Lengpui was also served by [[Air Deccan]] which later became [[Kingfisher Red]] but the airlines stopped operating from Lengpui on April 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kingfisher looks to shut some stations, reduce workforce |url=https://www.livemint.com/Companies/LSNxsMXwkfwDKfbiYQUywO/Kingfisher-looks-to-shut-some-stations-reduce-workforce.html |website=livemint |access-date=14 February 2019}}</ref>

==Technical details==
The 2,500-metre runway of the Lengpui airport is unique in that it has many hilly streams running underneath.<ref>{{cite news|title=Lengpui Airport safe for passenger flights, claims Aviation Wing|url=http://www.mizonews.net/mizo-news/lengpui-airport-safe-for-flights-claims-aviation-wing/|access-date=14 August 2012|newspaper=mizo news|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130221205917/http://www.mizonews.net/mizo-news/lengpui-airport-safe-for-flights-claims-aviation-wing/|archive-date=21 February 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> The airport is one among the three airports in India that has a [[Tabletop runway|table top runway]] (others being [[Calicut International Airport|Kozhikode]] and [[Mangalore International Airport|Mangalore]])<ref>{{cite news|url= http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/transportation/airlines-/-aviation/Indian-skies-are-safe-for-flying-Kanu-Gohain-Ex-Director-General-DGCA/articleshow/5964029.cms|title= Indian skies are safe for flying: Kanu Gohain, Ex-Director General, DGCA|date= 23 May 2010|newspaper=[[The Economic Times]]}}</ref> which creates an optical illusion that requires a very precise approach from the pilot.<ref name="Tabletop">{{cite news | url = http://www.hindu.com/2010/05/23/stories/2010052356181100.htm | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121107121854/http://www.hindu.com/2010/05/23/stories/2010052356181100.htm | url-status = dead | archive-date = 7 November 2012 |title= Tabletop runway creates an optical illusion, says pilot |date= 23 May 2010 | work = [[The Hindu]] | location=Chennai, India }}</ref> At present, Lengpui Airport has installed Cat-I [[Instrument Landing System]].<ref>{{cite web|title=LENGPUI AIRPORT ILS|url=http://dipr.mizoram.gov.in/press-release/lengpui-airport-ils|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121218163806/http://dipr.mizoram.gov.in/press-release/lengpui-airport-ils|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 December 2012|publisher=DIPR Mizoram|access-date=14 August 2012}}</ref> which will help planes land safely during low visibility conditions.<ref>{{cite news|last=PTI|title=Now, planes can land in Mizoram in low light condition|url=http://www.sify.com/news/now-planes-can-land-in-mizoram-in-low-light-condition-news-national-libwakjiadd.html?ref=false|access-date=30 August 2012|newspaper=Sify News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130619011051/http://www.sify.com/news/now-planes-can-land-in-mizoram-in-low-light-condition-news-national-libwakjiadd.html?ref=false|archive-date=19 June 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> A Runway safety area<ref>{{cite news|last=Sarma|first=Pankaj|title=Panel for safer runway at Lengpui|url=http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120622/jsp/northeast/story_15640879.jsp#.UCttUKO4KuI|access-date=15 August 2012|newspaper=Telegraph India}}</ref> and Isolation parking bay are also under construction plan.<ref>{{cite news|title=Kingfisher leh Air India ten Mizoram sum nuai 117 an ba|url=http://www.thezozamtimes.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5021:kingfisher-leh-air-india-ten-mizoram-sum-nuai-117-an-ba&catid=43:news&Itemid=63|access-date=15 August 2012|newspaper=The Zozam Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303230048/http://www.thezozamtimes.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5021:kingfisher-leh-air-india-ten-mizoram-sum-nuai-117-an-ba&catid=43:news&Itemid=63|archive-date=3 March 2016|url-status=dead}}</ref> The Indian Air Force is planning to station at least 4 jet fighters at Lengpui airport.<ref>{{cite news|title=IAF-in Lengpui Airport-ah Jet Fighter 4 dah an dil|url=http://thezozamtimes.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3734:iaf-in-lengpui-airport-ah-jet-fighter-4-dah-an-dil&catid=43:news&Itemid=63|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130416012630/http://thezozamtimes.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3734:iaf-in-lengpui-airport-ah-jet-fighter-4-dah-an-dil&catid=43:news&Itemid=63|url-status=dead|archive-date=16 April 2013|access-date=30 August 2012|newspaper=The Zozamtimes}}</ref>
[[Indian Oil]] handles the [[Aviation fuel]] service department of lengpui airport.

[[File:Lengpui Airport terminal building.jpg|thumb|Lengpui airport terminal building]]

== Airlines and destinations ==
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| [[Air India]]|[[Imphal Airport|Imphal]], [[Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport|Kolkata]] |<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.airindia.in/time-table.htm|title=Air India Timetable|work=Air India|access-date=12 January 2020}}</ref>
|[[Go First (airline)|Go First]]<ref>{{cite news|title=Budget airline GoAir rebrands as Go First|url=https://www.thehindu.com/business/budget-airline-goair-rebrands-as-go-first/article34552775.ece}}</ref>| [[Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport|Guwahati]] |<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.flygofirst.com/plan-my-trip/flight-schedule/|title=Flight Schedule|publisher=[[Go First]]|access-date=30 June 2021}}</ref>
| [[IndiGo]] |[[Indira Gandhi International Airport|Delhi]], [[Lokpriya Gopinath Bordoloi International Airport|Guwahati]], [[Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose International Airport|Kolkata]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.traveltrendstoday.in/news/aviation/item/8160-indigo-launches-26-new-flights|title=IndiGo Launches 26 New Flights|work=Travel Trends Today|access-date=6 March 2020}}</ref> |<ref>{{cite web|url=https://nenow.in/north-east-news/assam/indigo-to-launch-direct-flights-from-guwahati-to-aizawl-and-varanasi.html|title=IndiGo to launch direct flights from Guwahati to Aizawl and Varanasi|work=NorthEast Now|access-date=3 January 2020}}</ref>
}}

==Helicopter Service==
[[File:Pawan hans helicopter mizoram.jpg|thumb|Pawan hans Helicopter Mizoram]]
A Helicopter service by [[Pawan Hans]] operating in Lengpui connects Aizawl with [[Lunglei]], [[Lawngtlai]], [[Saiha]], [[Chawngte]], [[Serchhip]], [[Champhai]], [[Kolasib]], [[Khawzawl]], [[Mamit]] and [[Hnahthial]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Mizorama helicopter service Tur chief minister in Hawng |url=http://dipr.mizoram.gov.in/press-release/mizorama-helicopter-service-tur-chief-minister-in-hawng |publisher=Mizoram DIPR |access-date=14 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212015939/http://dipr.mizoram.gov.in/press-release/mizorama-helicopter-service-tur-chief-minister-in-hawng |archive-date=12 December 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Nilaini atangin 'Helicopter Service|url=http://www.thezozamtimes.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5455:nilaini-atangin-helicopter-service&catid=43:news&Itemid=63|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150923163051/http://www.thezozamtimes.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5455:nilaini-atangin-helicopter-service&catid=43:news&Itemid=63|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 September 2015|access-date=20 August 2012|newspaper=The Zozam Times}}</ref>
==Accidents and incidents==

On 4 May 2011, a Northeast Shuttle's [[Cessna Caravan]] (VT-NES) crash landed at Lengpui airport, overshooting the runway. While there were no fatalities, the aircraft was damaged beyond repair and was written off. The officials at Lengpui airport attributed the mishap to rainfall coupled with strong winds reducing visibility during landing.<ref>{{cite news|title=Cessna aircraft crash landed at Mizoram airport, 9 injured|url=http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/industry-and-economy/logistics/article1990728.ece|access-date=29 August 2012|newspaper=The Hindu Business Line}}</ref> However, the [[Directorate General of Civil Aviation (India)|DGCA]] enquiry reported the cause of the accident to be "inadequate skill level of the pilot to execute a safe landing during marginal weather conditions". The pilot had failed to execute a stabilized approach. As a consequence the aircraft touched down well past the runway threshold, overshot the runway and fell into a ravine. The overshoot was a consequence of the pilot choosing to continue with the unstable approach, rather than going around to divert or make another approach. The DGCA also held the operator responsible for not ensuring that the pilot met the minimum regulatory requirements of the DGCA. The pilot was not cleared as per DGCA regulations to operate in airports situated in hilly terrain. The regulator also observed that the availability of a [[Runway safety area|runway end safety area]] (RESA) and a functioning [[instrument landing system]] (ILS) would have increased the safety margin at the airport.<ref>{{cite news|title=Final Investigation Report|url=http://dgca.nic.in/accident/reports/VT-NES.pdf|access-date=20 August 2014|work=[[Directorate General of Civil Aviation (India)]]}}</ref>

== References ==
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==External links==
*[http://www.aai.aero/allAirports/lengpui.jsp Lengpui Airport at the AAI]
*Director General of Civil Aviation. (18/03/2019). [http://dgca.nic.in/dom_flt_schedule/INDIGO_SS19.pdf APPROVED DOMESTIC SCHEDULE SUMMER]. Aurbindo Marg, Opp. Safdarjung Airport, New Delhi 110003, INDIA
*{{WAD|VELP}}

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