Cutral Có Airport is an airport serving

Cutral Có Cutral Có is a city in the Confluencia Department of Neuquén Province in Argentina. It is part of the statistical area formed with neighboring Plaza Huincul. The settlement is located in the desert, it was founded in 1933 after the discovery of ...

Neuquén Neuquén (; ) is the capital city of the Argentine province of Neuquén and of the Confluencia Department, located in the east of the province. It occupies a strip of land west of the confluence of the Limay and Neuquén rivers which form t ...

province,

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. The airport covers and area of , and has a covered terminal.

Accidents and incidents

*14 April 1976: A

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, registration LV-HHB, that was transferring staff between

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and Cutral Có, crashed north of the intended destination. The aircraft was approximately half an hour into the flight, at , when both the starboard wing and the starboard

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detached from the fuselage, causing the aircraft to corkscrew to the ground, crashing and bursting into flames. All 34 occupants of the aircraft — 31 passengers and a

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of three — died in the accident.

References

Airports in Neuquén Province {{Argentina-airport-stub

Accidents and incidents

See also

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