Sutan Sjahrir Air Force Base

Airport in West Sumatra, Indonesia

WIMG

Location in Sumatra

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
16/34	7,217	2,200	Concrete

Source: DAFIF

Sutan Sjahrir Air Force Base, formerly Tabing Airport (IATA: ~~PDG~~, ICAO: WIMG), is a military air base in Padang, Indonesia. Tabing Airport was West Sumatra's primary airport for civil aviation prior to the opening of Minangkabau International Airport on 22 July 2005. Tabing Airport is now used by the Indonesian Air Force. It has been renamed after Sutan Sjahrir, Indonesia's first prime minister.

Incidents and accidents

On 10 November 1971, a Merpati Nusantara Airlines Vickers Viscount PK-MVS from Jakarta crashed into the sea 75 miles (121 km) off Padang, killing all 69 people on board.^[1]
On 13 October 2012, a Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737, operating as Sriwijaya Air Flight 21 bound for Minangkabau from Medan, accidentally landed at the airport. None of its 96 passengers and 4 crew were injured, and both pilots were subsequently suspended and questioned by the NTSC.^[2]^[3]

References

^ "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network.
^ "Indonesia plane lands at Tabing not Padang". BBC News Asia. 2012. Retrieved 2013-06-10.
^ "SRIWIJAYA AIR NYASAR : KNKT Periksa Percakapan Pilot" (in Indonesian). Solo Pos. 2012. Retrieved 2013-02-19.

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