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Tri State Milton Airport
Airport Directory » United States » Huntington » Tri State Milton AirportTri-State Airport (IATA: HTS, ICAO: KHTS), also known as Milton J. Ferguson Field, is a public airport turn up merely southward of Ceredo, West Virginia, 3 land mile (five kilometre) southward of the central downtown (CBD) of Huntington, West Virginia. It assists the nearby towns of Huntington, Ashland, Kentucky, and Ironton, Ohio. The airport has 2 landing track, 1 at 6,517 human foot, the other at 3,007 human foot. It has heavy use for civil aviation, but is also serviced by 3 commercial air hose.
Incidents
See also: Southern Airways Flight 932- On November 14, 1970, a leased Southern Airways DC-9 commercial jet plane crashed into a hill merely short of Runway 12. The voyage was transporting the thirty-seven fellow member of the Marshall University "Thundering Herd" football game squad, 8 fellow member of the manager staff, and twenty-five booster unit. There were no subsisters.
- On January 8, 2003, Air Midwest Flight 5481 functioning as US Airways Express Flight 5481 (N233YV), crashed at Charlotte-Douglas International Airport, assassination all 21 aboard. It was find out that the accident was do mainly by the faulty accommodation of an lift cable - work that was do merely two twenty-four hour period earlier at a installation at Tri-State Airport - by a automobile mechanic that had ne'er worked on that type of aircraft.
- On August 17, 2006, Rima Qayyum, a adult female of Pakistani beginning domiciling within the US, was precluded from boarding a airplane when it was constitute she had banned stuffs in her hand baggage. While these ab initio prove positive for explosive residue, subsequent analysis bring out that the liquids were harmless . Later proving bring out that it was merely water and soap The adult female had bought a one-way ticket on a voyage to Charlotte, North Carolina . In 2008, Qayyum registered a federal jurisprudence suit of clothes against US Airways for going against her civil rights.
- On January 30, 2009, a Piper PA-34-200T Seneca crashed in the neck of the woods of KHTS during a eminent snowfall event. The airplane pilot was trying to deviate to KHTS due to a fuel pinch. All six aboard were assassination.
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