Libertador General José de San Martín Airport
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Libertador General José de San Martín Airport ( es, Aeropuerto de Posadas "Libertador General San Martín") is located southwest of the center of Posadas, a city in the
Misiones Province Misiones (, ''Missions'') is one of the 23 provinces of Argentina, located in the northeastern corner of the country in the Mesopotamia region. It is surrounded by Paraguay to the northwest, Brazil to the north, east and south, and Corrientes ...
of
Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
. The airport covers an area of 329
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s (813 acres) and is operated by Aeropuertos Argentina 2000


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On June 12, 1988,
Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 046 Austral Líneas Aéreas Flight 046 was an Argentine scheduled domestic flight from Buenos Aires to Posadas, via Resistencia, that undershot the runway at Libertador General Jose de San Martin Airport in Posadas on June 12, 1988, in conditions ...
undershot the runway, resulting in 22 deaths.


See also

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Transport in Argentina Transport in Argentina is mainly based on a complex network of routes, crossed by relatively inexpensive long-distance buses and by cargo trucks. The country also has a number of national and international airports. The importance of the long-d ...
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Posadas, PSS
at Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 (official web site) * * Airports in Argentina {{argentina-airport-stub