Palermo-Punta Raisi Airport
Aeroporto Internazionale di Palermo-Punta Raisi Falcone e Borsellino | |
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Characteristics | |
ICAO code | LICJ |
IATA code | PMO |
Coordinates | |
Height above MSL | 20 m (66 ft ) |
Transport links | |
Distance from the city center | 35 km west of Palermo |
Street | |
train | to Palermo |
Basic data | |
opening | 1960 |
operator | GESAP |
Terminals | 1 |
Passengers | 7,018,087 (2019) |
Air freight | 1,166 t (2019) |
Flight movements |
54,243 (2019) |
Runways | |
02/20 | 2068 m × 45 m asphalt |
07/25 | 3326 m × 60 m asphalt |
The airport Palermo-Punta Raisi "Falcone e Borsellino" ( Italian Aeroporto Internazionale di Palermo Punta Raisi "Falcone e Borsellino" ) is the international airport of the Italian city of Palermo .
Location and transport links
The airport Palermo-Punta Raisi is located on the north coast of Sicily , 35 km west of Palermo, at Cape Punta Raisi in the municipality of Cinisi .
- Car : The airport is on the motorway A29 within easy reach.
- Bus : Prestia e Comandé goes to the central station in Palermo (transfer 50 min)
- Rail : There is a double-track, electrified terminal station under the terminal . Trains from the Servizio ferroviario metropolitano di Palermo (Line A; the interruption shown on the map was valid until October 2018) run every half hour between the airport and Palermo central station .
history
The international airport at Punta Raisi was opened in 1960 because the old Palermo-Boccadifalco airport , located in the city, was no longer able to cope with the volume of traffic. Taking into account the interests of the Mafia meant that the airport was built in an extremely unfavorable location, which is why approaching aircraft usually have to fly relatively close to the surrounding mountains. The regular strong Scirocco winds soon made it necessary to build a crosswind runway . In 1995 a new terminal with a few passenger boarding bridges was inaugurated and in 2001 a rail connection with the city center was added. A further expansion is planned.
Surname
The airport is named after the Punta Raisi headland on which it is located and after the judges Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino , who were murdered by the Mafia in 1992. Until 2011 a bronze plaque by Tommaso Geraci at the entrance to the airport with the inscription: "Giovanni Falcone - Paolo Borsellino - The Others - The Pride of the New Sicily" commemorated them . During renovations it was removed and taken to the Commissariato in Cefalù.
Traffic figures
year | Passenger volume | Air freight ( tons ) (with airmail ) |
Flight movements |
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2019 | 7,018,087 | 1.166 | 54,243 |
2018 | 6,628,558 | 374 | 51,418 |
2017 | 5,775,274 | 324 | 46,627 |
2016 | 5,325,539 | 407 | 44.122 |
2015 | 4,910,791 | 1,186 | 42,407 |
2014 | 4,569,550 | 1,507 | 41,321 |
2013 | 4,349,672 | 1,533 | 40,244 |
2012 | 4,608,533 | 2,367 | 42,925 |
2011 | 4,992,798 | 1,977 | 48,865 |
2010 | 4,367,342 | 2,852 | 47,076 |
2009 | 4,376,143 | 3,308 | 49,878 |
2008 | 4,446,142 | 4,320 | 49.185 |
2007 | 4,511,165 | 4,384 | 51,217 |
2006 | 4,280,614 | 5,186 | 47,335 |
2005 | 3,831,876 | 5,219 | 44,065 |
2004 | 3,783,651 | 4,984 | 42,766 |
2003 | 3,649,494 | 5,372 | 42,866 |
2002 | 3,539,435 | 6,549 | 44,330 |
2001 | 3,213,389 | 6.012 | 41,777 |
2000 | 3,231,267 | 6.219 | 43,508 |
Incidents
- On 5 May 1972, a crashed Douglas DC-8-43 of Alitalia ( air vehicle registration number I-DIWB ; baptismal name "Antonio Pigafetta") during their nighttime landing approach to Palermo , as the pilots not the usual approach procedures were carried out and the machine in a mountain flying (CFIT, Controlled flight into terrain ). All 115 people on board died.
- On December 23, 1978 a Douglas DC-9-32 of Alitalia (I-DIKQ ; baptismal name "Isola di Stromboli") from Rome also had an accident during the approach to Palermo. The machine crashed into the sea shortly before the runway after the pilots had apparently lost their orientation and had approached too low. Of the 129 people on board, 108 were killed and 21 were rescued with the help of fishing boats.
- On 6 August 2005, the flight crew had an ATR 72-200 of the airline Tuninter (TS-LBB) off the coast of Sicily ditch , 26 kilometers from Palermo-Punta Raisi station. The cause of the accident was an incorrectly installed tank level indicator the day before. The indicator intended for the smaller ATR 42 had shown a full tank instead of an empty tank, so that the machine had started with only 570 kg (instead of 3000 kg) of kerosene from Bari towards Djerba . When ditching in the Mediterranean Sea, 16 of the 39 people on board died (see Tuninter flight 1153 ) .
- On September 24, 2010, an Airbus A319-132 from Rome-Fiumicino of the Italian low-cost airline Wind Jet (EI-EDM) crashed while landing at Palermo-Punta Raisi Airport. During the approach at around 8 p.m. there was heavy rainfall and wind shearings were also reported. The machine touched down 367 meters from runway 07 and continued to slide 850 meters. The main landing gear of the Airbus buckled. Of the total of 129 people on board, 34 passengers and 1 flight attendant suffered minor injuries during the subsequent evacuation of the aircraft. On November 28, 2014, the Italian air accident authority ANSV finally published its final investigation report and named pilot errors as the main cause of the accident: The report found numerous violations of guidelines; The flight captain waived the mandatory landing briefing, insulted the inexperienced copilot who initially piloted the aircraft and gave him insufficient support during the approach until he took control himself. The report also criticizes the fact that the airport staff only triggered the alarm with a delay and that the first rescue vehicles did not arrive at the aircraft until 22 minutes after the accident. At this point, the passengers had already escaped on foot to the nearby airport building.
photos
Web links
- official page
- La Repubblica : 50 anni di Punta Raisi fra lutti e sogni di gloria . 2010. Newspaper article on the 50th anniversary
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f Statistiche. In: assaeroporti.com. Assaeroporti , accessed April 27, 2020 (Italian).
- ↑ Monica Panzica: Punta Raisi, Gesap: concorso via nuova opera dedicata a Falcone e Borsellino. In: Corriere del Mezzogiorno. June 24, 2011, accessed October 18, 2018 (Italian).
- ^ Accident report DC-8-40 I-DIWB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on September 26, 2019.
- ^ Accident report DC-9-32 I-DIKQ , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on September 26, 2019.
- ^ Accident report ATR 72 TS-LBB , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on December 16, 2017.
- ↑ fliegerweb.com: Wind Jet A319 crash-landed
- ↑ ANSV: Aeroporto di Palermo Punta Raisi, A319 marche EI-EDM , accessed on December 8, 2012 (in Italian)
- ↑ Aviation Herald: Accident: Windjet A319 at Palermo on Sep 24th 2010, touched down short of runway , accessed on December 8, 2014 (in English)
- ↑ Accident report A319 EI-EDM , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on January 31, 2020.