San_Carlos_de_Bariloche_Airport

San Carlos de Bariloche Airport

San Carlos de Bariloche Airport

International airport serving San Carlos de Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina

San Carlos de Bariloche Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto de San Carlos de Bariloche) (IATA: BRC, ICAO: SAZS), also known as Teniente Luis Candelaria Airport,[5] is an international airport serving the city of San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina. The airport covers an area of 1,810 hectares (4,500 acres; 7.0 sq mi) and has a 12,000-square-metre (130,000 sq ft) terminal; it is located 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) out of the city.[2]

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Airlines and destinations

Check-in counters
Last waiting room at the airport
Last waiting room at the airport
Airside of the airport
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Accidents and incidents

Accidents involving fatalities

  • 13 May 1957: A LADE Vickers VC.1 Viking, registration T-3, flew into mountainous terrain, 30 kilometres (19 mi) out of San Carlos de Bariloche. All 16 occupants of the aircraft died in the accident.[7]
  • 16 March 1975: A LADE Fokker F27-400M, tail number TC-72, struck a mountain, 35 kilometres (22 mi) west of the city, while on approach to the airport inbound from El Palomar. There were 52 fatalities.[8]
  • 21 November 1977: An Austral Líneas Aéreas BAC 1-11, registration LV-JGY, that was operating a domestic non-scheduled Buenos Aires–Bariloche as Flight 9, made a premature descent and crashed into mountainous terrain on final approach to the airport, 21 kilometres (13 mi) east of the city, killing 46 of 79 occupants on board.[9]

Non-fatal hull-losses

  • 16 August 1989: A LADE Fokker F28-1000C, tail number TC-51, failed to get airborne and overran the runway, being stopped by a dike.[10]

Statistics

Annual passenger traffic at BRC airport. See Wikidata query.
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See also

References

  1. [1]
    "SAZS/San Carlos de Bariloche International Airport Fact Sheet" (PDF) (in Spanish). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 February 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  2. [2]
    "Aeropuerto de San Carlos de Bariloche" [San Carlos de Bariloche Airport]. Organismo Regulador del Sistema Nacional de Aeropuertos (ORSNA) (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 12 February 2012.
  3. [3]
    "Airport information for SAZS". World Aero Data. Archived from the original on 5 March 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) Data current as of October 2006.
  4. [4]
    "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 March 2018. Retrieved 12 March 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. [5]
    Lieutenant Luis Candelaria International Airport, at Aeropuertos.net (accessed 2015-04-26)
  6. [6]
    "Azul anuncia volta de voos para a Argentina, com rota para Bariloche". Aeroin (in Portuguese). 16 January 2024. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  7. [7]
    Accident description for T-3 at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 23 March 2012.
  8. [8]
    Accident description for TC-72 at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 23 March 2012.
  9. [9]
    Accident description for LV-JGY at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 23 March 2012.
  10. [10]
    Accident description for TC-51 at the Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved on 23 March 2012.
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