Artigas Airport

Aeropuerto Internacional de Artigas
Characteristics
ICAO code	SUAG
IATA code	ATI
Coordinates	30 ° 24 ′ 3 ″  S , 56 ° 30 ′ 28 ″  W Coordinates: 30 ° 24 ′ 3 ″  S , 56 ° 30 ′ 28 ″  W
Height above MSL	125 m (410  ft )
Runways
11/29	1273 m × 30 m asphalt
05/23	583 m of grass

The Aeropuerto Internacional de Artigas ( IATA airport code : ATI - ICAO airport code: SUAG) is an airport in Uruguay .

It lies west of the city of Artigas in the department of Artigas in the north of Uruguay near the border with Brazil .

Incidents

On February 10, 1978, the worst aviation accident in the history of Uruguay occurred at the airport when a TAMU aircraft of the type Douglas DC-3 / C-47A ( aircraft registration number ) with 44 people (6 crew members, 38 passengers) CX-BJH ) with the destination Montevideo crashed shortly after take-off two kilometers from the airport and went up in flames. There were no survivors of the accident.

See also

List of airports in Uruguay

Web links

• Entry on www.airgorilla.com
• Image of the airport from the following post in the forum http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=540292

Individual evidence

1. ^ Artigas (Aeropuerto) - Accidentes e incidentes (Spanish), accessed June 16, 2013
2. ↑ Aircraft accident data and report DC-3 CX-BJH in the Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on June 13, 2017.