Araracuara Airport

Updated on Oct 06, 2024

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Serves Araracuara, Colombia 11/29 1,280 4,199 Gravel		Elevation AMSL m / 1,246 ft 1,280 4,199

Address Araracuara, Solano, Caquetá, Colombia

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.

References

Araracuara Airport Wikipedia

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