Lawas Airport

Lapangan Terbang Lawas
MASWings Twin Otter on the Lawas runway
Summary
Airport typePublic
OwnerGovernment of Malaysia
OperatorMalaysia Airports Holdings Berhad
ServesLawas
LocationLawas, Sarawak, Malaysia
Time zoneMST (UTC+08:00)
Elevation AMSL5 ft / 2 m
Coordinates04°50′57″N 115°24′10″E / 4.84917°N 115.40278°E / 4.84917; 115.40278
Map
WBGW is located in East Malaysia
WBGW
WBGW
Location in East Malaysia
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
01/19 686 2,251 Bitumen
Source: AIP Malaysia[1]

Lawas Airport (IATA: LWY, ICAO: WBGW)[2] is a Short Take-off and Landing (STOL) airport serving Lawas, a town in Limbang Division, Sarawak, Malaysia.

A plan has been made to relocate the current airport to a new site, because the current site is considered unsafe. The airport is located near a river, and some land corrosion had been spotted along the riverbank. The proposed new airport will be able to accommodate ATR 72-500 aircraft operated by MASwings, and the airport will not only be used by people in Lawas, but also people near the surrounding Sarawak-Sabah border.

Airlines and destinations

AirlinesDestinations
Malaysia Airlines
operated by MASwings
Ba'kelalan, Kota Kinabalu, Limbang, Miri

Incidents and Accidents

  • On 24 August 2011, a MASwings aircraft Twin Otter DHC6 broke off its front landing gear upon landing. All 16 passengers and two crew escaped unharmed in the incident.[3]

See also

References

  1. AIP Malaysia: Index to Aerodromes at Department of Civil Aviation Malaysia
  2. Airport information for LWY at Great Circle Mapper.
  3. "18 survive crash-landing in Lawas". The Borneo Post. 25 August 2011. Retrieved 3 July 2017.


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