Caracas airport
| Caracas Aeropuerto Internacional de Maiquetía Simón Bolívar airport |
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | SVMI |
| IATA code | CCS |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 57 m (187 ft ) |
| Transport links | |
| Distance from the city center | 4 km west of Maiquetía, 14 km northwest of Caracas |
| Street | Autopista Caracas - La Guaira A – 03 |
| train | - |
| Local transport | Bus, taxi |
| Basic data | |
| opening | 1945 |
| operator | Instituto Aeropuerto Internacional de Maiquetía (IAIM) |
| surface | 882 ha |
| Passengers | 8,830,688 (2010) |
| Flight movements |
139,727 (2010) |
| Runways | |
| 09/27 09 only take-offs 27 only landings |
2900 m × 45 m asphalt |
| 10/28 | 3500 m × 45 m asphalt |
The Caracas airport ( Spanish Aeropuerto Internacional de Maiquetía Simón Bolívar , English Simon Bolivar International Airport ) is an international airport in Maiquetia , Venezuela , about 14 km north-west of the capital Caracas . It takes about 30 to 60 minutes to get to the city center there (Plaza Venezuela), depending on the traffic density.
The Maiquetía Aeropuerto was inaugurated on January 1, 1945 by President Isaías Medina Angarita .
The airport operator is the Instituto Aeropuerto Internacional de Maiquetía (IAIM). Caracas Airport is the most important of the country's twelve international airports. It was the aviation hub of the airline Linea Aeropostal Venezolana .
Airport infrastructure : The airport has two asphalt runways with a length of 3500 and 2900 meters at an altitude ( ARP ) of 57 meters above sea level as well as two check-in halls and serves destinations in North, Central and South America as well as in Europe. From Germany, Lufthansa flew daily non-stop from Frankfurt am Main to Caracas until June 17, 2016 . Since then, Lufthansa and many other international airlines have stopped offering flights to Caracas due to the financial crisis in Venezuela.
The airport was temporarily served by the British-French supersonic aircraft Concorde .
Incidents
- On December 12, 1968 was Boeing 707-321B of Pan American World Airways (N494PA) before landing in Caracas flown at night in the Atlantic Ocean because the pilots perceived prevailing altitude wrong after the lights situated on a mountain slope city Confused Maiquetía with the runway. All 51 occupants died in the accident (see also Pan-Am flight 217 ) .
- On December 3, 1969, crashed Boeing 707-328B of Air France (F-BHSZ) en route from Santiago de Chile to Paris shortly after a stopover at the airport Caracas following start about six kilometers into the sea. All 62 people on board were killed. According to a leaked secret report, an explosive charge could have been in the left main landing gear bay.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pasajeros Movilizados Año 2010. (No longer available online.) In: Airport website. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved March 31, 2015 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Operaciones Aéreas Año 2010. (No longer available online.) In: Airport website. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved March 31, 2015 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b AIP Venezuela AD 2.SVMI, February 5, 2015
- ↑ Georg Ismar: Stop for Venezuela flights: "It has never been so bad". In: Spiegel Online . June 16, 2016, accessed June 17, 2016 .
- ↑ Accident Report B-707 N494PA , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 16 of 2019.
- ^ Accident report B-707 F-BHSZ , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 29, 2019.
Web links
- Official website of the airport. Retrieved March 31, 2015 (Spanish).
- Published eAIPs Venezuela. Retrieved March 31, 2015 .