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Airport information for Arturo Merino Benitez Airport Country: Chile Location: Santiago Coordinates: 33.23.00S / 070.47.00W IATA Code: SCL Timezone: GMT -4 Direct flights form Arturo Merino Benitez Airport Direct flights to Arturo Merino Benitez Airport Find connecting flights to Arturo Merino Benitez Airport Find connecting flights from Arturo Merino Benitez Airport

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Comodoro Arturo Merino Benítez International Airport "AMBIA" (IATA: SCL, ICAO: SCEL), also known as Pudahuel Airport and Santiago International Airport, turn up in Pudahuel, Santiago, Región Metropolitana is Chile's biggest air power installation. It assisted 9,017,718 riders in 2008.

History

The airport was made between 1961 and 1967 and was originally named Aeropuerto Internacional Pudahuel; it replaced Los Cerrillos Airport.

The name of the airport was afterwards rechristened in honour of the establisher of the Chilean Air Force: Arturo Merino Benítez during the 1970s.

The installation was spread out in 1994 with a new international depot. This enlargement added jetways, a duty free zone, hotel, and greater parkland.

Runway fiasco

In 2002 a new depot opened; building on Runway 17R/35L set about in 2004 and opened to traffic in September 2005. However, within calendar month defects were see and the landing track claimed fixing, finished in January 2006. Unfortunately further survey of the job heard that the doctors were deficient. The landing track were declared useless due to their poor surface and opposition defects. 28-year-old Runway 17L/35R in direct contrast only claimed fixing one time, in 2005. Additionally the landing track's go up system was insufficient and missed the ILS Category III go up system used for low visibleness; that is used by the older landing track. The landing track was reconstructed set about in February 2007 and reopened for traffic in March.

Accidents

No airline calamities have take place at the location. However in 1972 a leased voyage by an Uruguayan rugby football squad crashed into the Chilean Andes while en path to SCL. Furthermore on October 2, 1996, voyage 603, an AeroPerú Boeing 757 crashed into the Pacific Ocean before its reaching from Lima, Perú's Jorge Chávez International Airport, assassination all on board.

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