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Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport

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Airport type
  
Public

Elevation AMSL
  
19 ft / 6 m

2,375
  
7,792

Code
  
ADZ

Phone
  
+57 8 5126112

Location
  
San Andrés, Colombia

06/24
  
2,375

7,792
  
Asphalt

Elevation
  
27 m

Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport

Address
  
Av Colon, San Andrés, Colombia

Owner
  
Special Administrative Unit of Civil Aeronautics

Similar
  
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Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport (IATA: ADZ, ICAO: SKSP) is the main airport in the archipelago of San Andrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina. It is able to receive large aircraft and to accommodate seasonal and charter flights from different parts of the Americas and Europe.

Contents

The San Andres VOR-DME (Ident: SPP) and non-directional beacon (Ident: SPP) are located on the field.

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Description

The airport is the sixth busiest airport in Colombia in terms of passengers, with 836,234 in 2006. Most of these passengers come from the continental part of the country, due to poor international direct service to the island. Many international tourists have to fly to one of Colombia's or Panama's largest airports (Bogotá, Medellín, Cali, Cartagena, Barranquilla or Panama City) to be able to reach the islands.

Accidents and incidents

On August 16, 2010, AIRES Flight 8250, crashed when on approach to Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport. Two of the 129 passengers and crew on board died.

On September 19, 2013, American Airlines flight 1204 from San Jose, Costa Rica made an emergency landing at the San Andres Airport after reporting smoke in the cockpit. All 179 passengers were said to be safe and continued to Miami, their final destination, on a second plane. The aircraft involved in the incident was a Boeing 757.

References

Gustavo Rojas Pinilla International Airport Wikipedia