Saposoa Airport
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| Airport type | Public | ||||||||||
| Serves | Saposoa | ||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 1,148 ft / 350 m | ||||||||||
| Coordinates | 6°57′25″S 76°46′10″W / 6.95694°S 76.76944°W | ||||||||||
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Saposoa Airport (ICAO: SPOA) is an airport serving the town of Saposoa in the San Martín Region of Peru. The runway is 1.6 kilometres (0.99 mi) south of the town, on the opposite side of the Saposoa River.
Accident
[edit]On November 5, 1994, Servicios Aéreos Amazónicos Flight 2079, a Yakovlev Yak-40 trijet (reg. OB-1569) serving the Trujillo-Saposoa-Juanjuí-Tocache-Lima schedule, crashed into the aforementioned river after overrunning the airstrip during landing. The aircraft apparently crashed due to the Ukrainian instructor pilot's decision to land despite heavy rain and poor visual conditions reported at the time which led the aircraft to touch half down the wet runway, which deprived it of enough space to brake, leading to the accident.[3] Reportedly, the pilot's conflict with the Peruvian student copilot over the decision to land would have been a contributing factor, as the latter claimed to have tried to abort the landing at the last moment.[4] Of the 31 occupants (26 passengers and 5 crew) 5 passengers and 1 crewmen died.[5][6]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Airport information for Saposoa Airport at Great Circle Mapper.
- ^ Google Maps - Saposoa
- ^ "ASN Aircraft accident Yakovlev Yak-40 OB-1569 Saposoa Airport (SQU)".
- ^ Aviation Safety Network
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-09-23. Retrieved 2013-10-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Plane Crashes in Peruvian Jungle; at Least 20 Injured". Archived from the original on October 17, 2013.
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