Araracuara Airport
| Araracuara Airport | |||||||||||
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| Serves | Araracuara, Colombia | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | m / 1,246 ft | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 0°36′03″S 72°23′53″W / 0.60083°S 72.39806°WCoordinates: 0°36′03″S 72°23′53″W / 0.60083°S 72.39806°W | ||||||||||
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Araracuara Airport (IATA: ACR, ICAO: SKAC) is an airport serving Araracuara, in the Caquetá Department of Colombia. The town and airport are on the north bank of the Caquetá River, an eventual tributary of the Amazon River.
Accidents and incidents
- On 6 September 2014, ten people were killed when a twin-engine Piper PA-31 Navajo aircraft, a small passenger plane belonging to the Laser company, crashed in the Amazon rainforest near Puerto Santander after taking off from Araracuara Airport. Among those killed were two researchers from the Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute. There were no survivors.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ Airport information for ACR at Great Circle Mapper.
- ↑ "AIP Colombia - AD 1.3 INDICE DE AERODROMOS Y HELIPUERTOS" (PDF) (in Spanish). Aeronáutica Civil. Archived from the original (pdf) on 4 May 2014. Retrieved 4 December 2015.
- ↑ Google Maps - Araracuara
- ↑ "Small passenger plane crashes in Colombian jungle, killing 10". BNO News. Archived from the original on 28 September 2014. Retrieved 26 December 2014.
External links
- OpenStreetMap - Araracuara
- SkyVector - Araracuara
- Accident history for ACR at Aviation Safety Network
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