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Viña del Mar Airport is an airport serving Viña del Mar and
Valparaíso Valparaíso (; ) is a major city, seaport, naval base, and educational centre in the commune of Valparaíso, Chile. "Greater Valparaíso" is the second largest metropolitan area in the country. Valparaíso is located about northwest of Santiago ...
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Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...
. The airport is in the hills east of the coastal city of Concón.


Accidents and incidents

On 9 September 2013, A Corpflite
Dornier 228 The Dornier 228 is a twin-turboprop STOL utility aircraft, designed and first manufactured by Dornier GmbH (later DASA Dornier, Fairchild-Dornier) from 1981 until 1998. Two hundred and forty-five were built in Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. In 19 ...
, registration CC-CNW crashed into power lines while attempting to land in fog, resulting in the loss of both crew members.Corpflite Dornier 228 Crashes On Landing
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See also

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List of airports in Chile This is a list of airports in Chile, sorted by location. __TOC__ Airports Airport names shown in bold indicate the airport has scheduled commercial airline service. Links to Spanish language Wikipedia are added for some communities. See als ...
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Transport in Chile Transport in Chile is mostly by road. The far south of the country is not directly connected to central Chile by road, and water transport also plays a part there. The railways were historically important in Chile, but now play a relatively small ...


References


External links


Viña del Mar
at OpenStreetMap
Viña del Mar
at OurAirports * * * Airports in Chile Airports in Valparaíso Region {{Chile-airport-stub