Orsk Airport

Orsk Airport (Russian: Аэропорт Орск) (IATA: OSW, ICAO: UWOR) is an international airport[1] in Russia located 16 km (10 mi) south of Orsk.

[2] On 9 April 1960 this was a refueling stop for Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-19 fighter jets from Sverdlovsk attempting to intercept one of Gary Powers' U-2 flights, however one of the MiG-19s crashed on approach to Orsk.

[2] The airport was the destination of Saratov Airlines Flight 703, which crashed killing 71 people in February 2018.

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