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'''Kanpur Civil Aerodrome''' {{airport codes||VIKA}}<ref>https://skyvector.com/airport/VIKA/Kanpur-Airport</ref><ref name="aai report"/> is an [[aerodrome]] located inside [[Kanpur Cantonment]] and is 5 kilometres east of [[Kanpur]] city. It is used by small aircraft of the flying club of Kanpur, the [[Directorate General of Civil Aviation (India)|DGCA]], the local flying school,<ref>{{cite web|title= Location|url=http://www.gargaviation.com/location.html|publisher=Garg Aviation|access-date=10 August 2014}}</ref> and the [[National Cadet Corps (India)|NCC]] Air Wing.
'''Kanpur Civil Aerodrome''' {{airport codes||VIKA}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://skyvector.com/airport/VIKA/Kanpur-Airport|title = VIKA - Kanpur Airport &#124; SkyVector}}</ref><ref name="aai report"/> is an [[aerodrome]] located inside [[Kanpur Cantonment]] and is 5 kilometres east of [[Kanpur]] city. It is used by small aircraft of the flying club of Kanpur, the [[Directorate General of Civil Aviation (India)|DGCA]], the local flying school,<ref>{{cite web|title= Location|url=http://www.gargaviation.com/location.html|publisher=Garg Aviation|access-date=10 August 2014}}</ref> and the [[National Cadet Corps (India)|NCC]] Air Wing.


==Incident and accidents==
==Incident and accidents==
On the morning of 18 May 1996, a 19-seater [[Archana Airways]] [[L-410]] aircraft operating on the Delhi - Kanpur sector touched down late and could not be stopped within the available runway length, ending up beyond the runway. The aircraft hit the boundary wall of the airport and came to a halt. The aircraft sustained major damages, but there was no fire and no injury to persons on board the aircraft.<ref>{{cite web|title=Civil Aviation Aircraft Accident Summary for the year 1996|url=http://dgca.nic.in/accident/acc96.pdf|publisher=DGCA|access-date=10 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103164042/http://dgca.nic.in/accident/acc96.pdf|archive-date=3 January 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>
On the morning of 18 May 1996, a 19-seater [[Archana Airways]] [[L-410]] aircraft operating on the Delhi - Kanpur sector touched down late and could not be stopped within the available runway length, ending up beyond the runway. The aircraft hit the boundary wall of the airport and came to a halt. The aircraft sustained major damages, but there was no fire and no injury to persons on board the aircraft.<ref>{{cite web|title=Civil Aviation Aircraft Accident Summary for the year 1996|url=http://dgca.nic.in/accident/acc96.pdf|publisher=DGCA|access-date=10 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150103164042/http://dgca.nic.in/accident/acc96.pdf|archive-date=3 January 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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