San Carlos de Bariloche Airport

Airlines and destinations

Accidents and incidents

Accidents involving fatalities

• 13 May 1957: A LADE Vickers VC.1 Viking, registration T-3, flew into mountainous terrain, out of San Carlos de Bariloche. All 16 occupants of the aircraft perished in the accident.
• 16 March 1975: A LADE Fokker F27-400M, tail number TC-72, struck a mountain, west of the city, while on approach to the airport inbound from El Palomar. There were 52 fatalities.
• 21 November 1977: An Austral Líneas Aéreas BAC 1-11, registration LV-JGY, that was operating a domestic non-scheduled Buenos Aires–Bariloche as Flight 9, made a premature descent and crashed into mountainous terrain on final approach to the airport, east of the city, killing 46 of 79 occupants on board.

  Non-fatal hull-losses

• 16 August 1989: A LADE Fokker F28-1000C, tail number TC-51, failed to get airborne and overran the runway, being stopped by a dike.

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