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Coposa Airport (IATA: CPP, ICAO: SCKP) is an extremely high elevation airport serving the Pica commune in the Tarapacá Region of Chile.The airport is 73 kilometres (45 mi) east-southeast of the town of Pica, and 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) west of the Bolivia border.
The crew probably mistook Fath Air Base's runway for the much longer Payam International Airport runway, [2] [4] as the two runways are just a few kilometres apart and on a similar alignment. A 707 generally requires a runway length more than 2,500 m (8,200 ft), [ 7 ] but the runway at Fath Air Base is only 1,300 metres (4,300 ft). [ 8 ]
The destination was relatively close to Fath Air Base, paired with the fact that Runway 30 and Runway 31L's thresholds are almost identical, and adverse weather contributed to the confusion. Fath Air Base is a military field housing a helicopter squadron, with a runway only 1,369 m long, too short for the aircraft to come to a complete stop.
New, dramatic video shows the moment Delta Flight 4819 caught fire and rolled over upon landing at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon. This video -- which was given to ...
Though runway 17/35 is not magnetically aligned with the other parallel runways, existing approaches permit triple parallel operations. Shanghai Pudong International Airport: Shanghai: China: 5 PVG/ZSPD Sheremetyevo International Airport: Moscow: Russia: 3 SVO/UUEE St. Louis Lambert International Airport: St. Louis: United States: 4 STL/KSTL
In 2023, 23 runway incursions (i.e. something was on the runway when it shouldn’t have been) were labeled as serious incidents. That was more that at any other point over the past decade.
An air traffic controller then redirected planes heading to runway 33 at Reagan Washington National Airport to go around. The explosion in midair occurred over the frigid Potomac River near the ...
It has one runway designated 7/25 with a 5,004 by 75 ft (1,525 x 23 m) asphalt surface. [1] For the 12-month period ending August 2, 2007, the airport had 9,950 aircraft operations, an average of 27 per day: 95% general aviation and 5% military. At that time there were 25 aircraft based at this airport: 64% single-engine, 20% multi-engine and ...