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Juan Santamaria International Airport is the largest and busiest airport in Costa Rica, having experienced a constant increase in traffic since its opening in 1958, boosted by the growing flow of tourists. The airport reached more than one million passengers per year for the first time in 1991 and having a record number of passengers in 2019.
Survivors. 15 (20 initially) TAN-SAHSA Flight 414 was a scheduled flight from Juan Santamaría International Airport, San José, Costa Rica to Toncontín Airport in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with a stopover at Augusto C. Sandino Airport in Managua, Nicaragua on 21 October 1989. [ 1] Flown with a Boeing 727-200, the flight crashed into a mountain ...
List of American Airlines accidents and incidents. As of March 2019, American Airlines has had almost sixty aircraft hull losses, beginning with the crash of an Ford 5-AT-C Trimotor in August 1931. [ 1][ 2] Of the hull losses, most were propeller driven aircraft, including three Lockheed L-188 Electra aircraft (of which one, the crash in 1959 ...
August 4, 1987 – LAN Chile 737-200 registration CC-CHJ, landed short of the displaced threshold of runway 27 at El Loa Airport, Chile. The nosegear collapsed and the aircraft broke in two. A fire broke out 30 minutes later and destroyed the aircraft. The threshold was displaced by 880m due to construction work.
On January 3, 2009, American Airlines Flight 924, a Boeing 737-800, took off from Jose Maria Cordova Airport and had to make an emergency landing due to fire in one of its engines. Upon landing, the pilot was forced to use the maximum braking, causing the brakes to overheat and one of the tires to explode.
The Federal Aviation Administration said the plane went into a safety area beyond the end of the runway on Saturday night. American Airlines said the Boeing 737-800 “experienced a braking issue ...
1930s. December 20, 1935. Sikorsky S-42 NC824M Puerto Rican Clipper lost control and crashed on landing at Port of Spain and sank, killing three of 25 on board. [ 2] April 11, 1936. Sikorsky S-42 NC15374 Antilles Clipper crashed on takeoff from Port of Spain, killing three of 22 on board.
American Airlines Flight 293 (June 20, 1979) - A Boeing 727 operated by American Airlines is hijacked. The hijacker later received a Boeing 707. No one is injured. Manx2 flight 7100 (February 10, 2011) - A Fairchild Swearingen Metroliner III was attempting to land at Cork Airport. After the flight commander ordered a go around and thrust was ...