- Eduardo Gomes International Airport
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Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes-Manaus International Airport
Aeroporto Internacional Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes-Manaus
IATA: MAO – ICAO: SBEG Summary Airport type Public Operator Infraero Serves Manaus Elevation AMSL 80 m / 264 ft Coordinates 03°02′19″S 060°02′59″W / 3.03861°S 60.04972°WCoordinates: 03°02′19″S 060°02′59″W / 3.03861°S 60.04972°W Website Map Location in Brazil
MAORunways Direction Length Surface m ft 10/28 2,700 8,858 Asphalt Statistics (2010) Passengers 2,705,131 Aircraft Operations 52,505 Metric tonnes of cargo 159,337 Statistics: Infraero[1]
Sources: Airport Website[2]Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes-Manaus International Airport (IATA: MAO, ICAO: SBEG), is the main airport serving Manaus, Brazil. It is named after the Brazilian politician and military figure Air Marshall Eduardo Gomes (1896–1981).
In 2010 the airport was ranked 3rd in terms of cargo handled in Brazil, placing it amongst the busiest airports in the country. It is operated by Infraero.
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History
Brigadeiro Eduardo Gomes International Airport replaced Ponta Pelada Airport as the main public airport of Manaus in 1976. Ponta Pelada was then given the name Manaus Air Force Base and began handling exclusively military operations.[3]
The construction of the airport began in 1972 and its was officially inaugurated on 31 March 1976. It was then the most modern airport in Brazil and the first one to operate with jet bridges. Though originally planned to be named Supersonic Airport of Manaus, it had its official name changed to Eduardo Gomes by the law 5.967 December 11, 1973.[4]
The airport has two passenger terminal buildings. Passenger Terminal 1 receives domestic and international flights and Passenger Terminal 2, informally as "Eduardinho" (Little Eduardo), opened on 12 March 1985, receives general aviation. Furthermore, the airport has three cargo terminals, opened in 1976, 1980 and 2004. They have a total area of 49,000 m² and can process up to 12,000 t/month of cargo. Cargo Terminals 1 and 2 handle goods for export and Cargo Terminal 3 for import.[5]
The Brazilian Integrated Air Traffic Control and Air Defense Center section 4 (Cindacta IV) is located in the vicinity of the airport.[6]
Terminals, airlines and destinations
Passenger
Airlines Destinations Terminal Azul Brazilian Airlines Belém-Val de Cães, Campinas-Viracopos, Fortaleza, Recife, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Salvador da Bahia 1 Copa Airlines Panama City 1 Gol Airlines Belém-Val de Cães, Boa Vista, Brasília, Cruzeiro do Sul, Campo Grande, Cuiabá, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Fortaleza, Foz do Iguaçu, Porto Alegre, Porto Velho, Recife, Rio Branco, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Rio de Janeiro-Santos Dumont, Salvador da Bahia, Santarém, São Luís, São Paulo-Guarulhos 1 TAM Airlines Aracaju, Belém-Val de Cães, Boa Vista, Brasília, Curitiba-Afonso Pena, Fortaleza, Miami, Porto Alegre, Porto Velho, Recife, Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, Salvador da Bahia, Santarém, São Luis, São Paulo-Congonhas, São Paulo-Guarulhos 1 Total Linhas Aéreas a Carauari, Coari, Porto Urucu 2 TRIP Linhas Aéreas Altamira, Barcelos, Belém-Val de Cães, Belo Horizonte-Confins, Coari, Cuiabá, Eirunepé, Fonte Boa, Humaitá, Itaituba, Lábrea, Parintins, Porto Trombetas, Porto Velho, Salvador da Bahia, Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, Santarém, São Gabriel da Cachoeira, São Paulo-Guarulhos, São Paulo de Olivença, Tabatinga, Tefé 1 Whitejets b Seasonal: Punta Cana 1 a.^ Airlines operating regular charter flights.
b.^ Airlines operating charter flights.Scheduled cargo
Terminal 1
Airlines Destinations ABSA Cargo Airline Campinas-Viracopos, Fortaleza, Guayaquil, Miami, Panama City, Quito, São Paulo-Guarulhos Amerijet International Miami Florida West International Airways Los Angeles, Miami Lufthansa Cargo Frankfurt LANCO Campinas-Viracopos, Miami MasAir Los Angeles, Mérida, Mexico City Master Top Airlines Campinas-Viracopos, Miami, São Paulo-Guarulhos Rio Linhas Aéreas Brasília, São Paulo-Guarulhos Tampa Cargo Bogotá, Miami VarigLog Belém-Val de Cães, Brasília, Campinas-Viracopos, Fortaleza, São Paulo-Guarulhos Accidents and incidents
Accidents
- 21 March 1989: Transbrasil flight 801, a cargo Boeing 707-349C registration PT-TCS, flying from Manaus to São Paulo-Guarulhos, crashed at the district of Vila Barros in Guarulhos, shortly before touch-down at runway 09R. That day, at 12:00 the runway was going to be closed for maintenance and the crew decided to speed up procedures to touch-down before closure (it was already 11:54). In a hurry, one of the crew members, by mistake, activated the air-dynamic brakes and the aircraft lost too much speed to have enough aerodynamic support (Stall). As a consequence the aircraft crashed at approximately 2 km from the airport. There were 25 fatalities which of these three were crew members and 22 were civilians on the accident site. As well as the 22 fatalities, there were also over 100 injured on the ground.[7]
- 14 May 2004: Rico Linhas Aéreas flight 4815 operated by the Embraer EMB 120ER Brasília registration PT-WRO, en route from São Paulo de Olivença and Tefé to Manaus crashed in the forest at about 18 nm from Manaus. All 33 passengers and crew died.[8]
- 29 September 2006: Gol Airlines flight 1907, a Boeing 737-8EH registration PR-GTD en route from Manaus to Brasília collided with a business jet Embraer Legacy on its first leg, fell, disintegrated in midair, and crashed into the Amazon forest in the north of the State of Mato Grosso, killing all of the 154 passengers and crew on board of the Gol aircraft.[9]
Incidents
- 21 April 1983: three Libyan Air Force Il-76TDs landed at Manaus after one of the Il-76s developed some technical problems while crossing the Atlantic Ocean. The aircraft were then searched by the Brazilian authorities: instead of medical supplies – as quoted in the transport documentation – the crate of the first of 17 Aero L-39 Albatros light training and attack aircraft bound for Nicaragua together with arms and parachutes, to support the country's war against US-backed Contras were found. The cargo was impounded, while the transports were permitted to return to Libya.[10]
- 6 March 1991: a TABA Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante flying to Manaus was hijacked near São Gabriel da Cachoeira by 3 persons.[11]
- 15 December 1994: a TABA Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante en route from Carauari and Tefé to Manaus was hijacked by two Colombian citizens. The passengers were released in the proximity of Tabatinga and the aircraft flown to Colombia. The crew was released at the Brazilian Embassy in Bogotá.[12]
Access
The airport is located 14 km (9 mi) north of downtown Manaus.
Future developments
On 31 August 2009, Infraero unveiled a BRL793.5 million (USD316.1 million; EUR292.2 million) investiment plan to up-grade Eduardo Gomes International Airport focusing on the preparations for the 2014 FIFA World Cup which will be held in Brazil, Manaus being one of the venue cities. The investiment will invested as follows:[13]
- Enlargement of apron and existing runway. Construction of second runway. Value BRL600.0. Completion: July 2013
- Enlargement and renovation of the passenger terminal. Value BRL193.5. Completion: December 2013
See also
References
- ^ Infraero Statistics for the Airport
- ^ Airport Official Website
- ^ "Base Aérea de Manaus e 1°/9° GAv completam 39 anos de apoio à Amazônia" (in Portuguese). Força Aérea Brasileira. 14 April 2009. http://www.fab.mil.br/portal/capa/index.php?mostra=2672. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- ^ "Histórico" (in Portuguese). Infraero. http://www.infraero.com.br/index.php/br/aeroportos/amazonas/aeroporto-internacional-eduardo-gomes/historico.html. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- ^ "Aeroporto Internacional Eduardo Gomes-Manaus" (in Portuguese). Infraero. http://www.infraero.com.br/index.php/br/aeroportos/amazonas/aeroporto-internacional-eduardo-gomes.html. Retrieved 26 April 2011.
- ^ "Cindacta IV" (in Portuguese). Brazilian Air Force: Departamento de Controle do Espaço Aéreo DECEA. http://www.decea.gov.br/unidades/cindacta-iv/. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
- ^ "Accident description PT-TCS". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19890321-0. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
- ^ "Accident description PT-WRO". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20040514-0. Retrieved 14 July 2011.
- ^ "Accident description N600XL and PR-GTD". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20060929-0. Retrieved 14 May 2011.
- ^ Cooper, Tom (1 September 2003). "Central and Latin America Database: Nicaragua 1980–1988". Air Combat Information Group. http://www.acig.org/artman/publish/article_157.shtml. Retrieved 4 May 2011.
- ^ "Incident description 6 March 1991". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19910306-1. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
- ^ "Incident description 15 December 1994". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19941215-1. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
- ^ Rittner, Daniel; Braga, Paulo Victor (31 August 2009). "Infraero vai gastar R$5 bi em reforma de aeroportos" (in Portuguese). Valor Econômico: pp. A4. http://www.valoronline.com.br.
External links
- Airport information for SBEG at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
- Airport information for SBEG at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
- Current weather for SBEG at NOAA/NWS
- Accident history for MAO at Aviation Safety Network
- Eduardo Gomes International Airport Photo Archive at airliners.net
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