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Punta Cana International Airport (IATA: PUJ, ICAO: MDPC) is a privately owned commercial airport in Punta Cana, eastern Dominican Republic. The airport was built with open-air terminals and roofs covered in palm fronds. Grupo Punta Cana built the airport, which was designed by architect Oscar Imbert, and inaugurated it in December 1983. [2]
On 8 February 1989, Independent Air Flight 1851, a Boeing 707 on an American charter flight from Bergamo, Italy, to Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, struck Pico Alto while on approach to Santa Maria Airport in the Azores for a scheduled stopover.
An aeronautical chart is a map designed to assist in the navigation of aircraft, much as nautical charts do for watercraft, or a roadmap does for drivers. Using these charts and other tools, pilots are able to determine their position, safe altitude, best route to a destination, navigation aids along the way, alternative landing areas in case of an in-flight emergency, and other useful ...
Punta Cana International Airport 18°34′00″N 68°21′07″W / 18.56667°N 68.35194°W / 18.56667; -68.35194 ( Punta Cana International Sánchez
Punta Cana International Airport is currently the country's busiest airport by passenger traffic. This is a list of the busiest airports in the Dominican Republic by passenger traffic , a statistic available for almost all the airstrips taken into account.
The airport is on the southern shore of the Samaná Peninsula, facing Samaná Bay to the south. There are tall hills immediately north of the runway. Approach and departure are over the water.
Punta Gorda: Punta Gorda Airport: Terminated [40] Sarasota: Sarasota–Bradenton International Airport [37] St. Augustine: Northeast Florida Regional Airport: Terminated [41] [42] Tampa: Tampa International Airport: Base [43] West Palm Beach: Palm Beach International Airport: United States : Atlanta: Hartsfield–Jackson Atlanta International ...
On 13 October 2014, a British Aerospace Jetstream 32 (HI816) was destroyed by fire at Punta Cana after an engine failure on short final, after a charter flight from Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico. All 13 passengers and two flight crew on board were evacuated safely. [8]