Sena Madureira Airport
| Aeroporto de Sena Madureira | |||
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| Characteristics | |||
| IATA code | ZMD | ||
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| Distance from the city center | 0.1 km east of Sena Madureira | ||
| Start-and runway | |||
| 00/18 roughly; no official information available |
850 m of grass | ||
The Aeroporto de Sena Madureira ( IATA code ZMD ) was the airport of the Brazilian city of Sena Madureira ( Acre ). It was located on the eastern outskirts of the city in a loop of the Rio Iaco and had an approximately 850 m long grass runway with a north-south orientation.
Flight operations
The airfield was regularly served by the Brazilian airline Serviços Aéreos Cruzeiro do Sul from Rio Branco at least in the 1940s to the early 1970s - at that time still under the code MAQ . Since the place was largely isolated in the winter months due to the poor roads, the airport represented an important connection to the outside world.
The airport began to be closed in 1996: the expansion of the BR-364 meant that a road connection was now also available in winter, and the area around the airport had become a social hotspot due to drug abuse and prostitution. After two women were killed on the runway by a plane landing in 1998, the airport was finally closed.
At the southern end of the former runway, the city administration built the model school Messias Rodrigues .
Incidents
On September 28, 1971, an engine failure occurred in a DC-3A-414A operated by Cruzeiro do Sul . The machine with the aircraft registration PP-CBV had taken off from Sena Madureira with destination Rio Branco and was still climbing . The pilots tried to return to Sena Madureira and land there. During the traffic pattern at a very low altitude, the right wing brushed trees, whereupon the aircraft crashed. None of the 32 inmates survived.
Web links
- Airport data in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Database query on the official website of the IATA ( Memento of the original of July 21, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , carried out on July 10, 2011
- ↑ http://www.emsampa.com.br/warac.htm
- ↑ cf. Remains of the airport on the Google Maps satellite image
- ↑ cf. Flight plans and route maps of the airline at timetableimages.com, accessed on July 10, 2011
- ↑ a b c Especial: Sena Madureira nicht tem mais aeroporto. (No longer available online.) In: Página 20 on-line. September 28, 2006, formerly in the original ; Retrieved July 8, 2011 (Portuguese). ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Accident report DC-3 PP-CBV , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 4, 2020.
