Tabatinga International Airport

Tabatinga International Airport Aeroporto Internacional de Tabatinga
IATA: TBT – ICAO: SBTT
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Infraero
Serves	Tabatinga
Elevation AMSL	85 m / 279 ft
Coordinates	04°15′25″S 069°56′16″W / 4.25694°S 69.93778°WCoordinates: 04°15′25″S 069°56′16″W / 4.25694°S 69.93778°W
Website	Infraero TBT
Map
TBT Location in Brazil
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 12/30 2,150 7,054 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 72,126 Aircraft Operations 3,287 Metric tonnes of cargo 36
Statistics: Infraero[1] Sources: Airport Website,[2] ANAC[3]

Tabatinga International Airport (IATA: TBT, ICAO: SBTT) is the airport serving Tabatinga, Brazil, located by the border with Colombia and Peru.

It is operated by Infraero.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Azul Brazilian Airlines	Manaus, Tefé

Access

The airport is located 1 km (1 mi) from downtown Tabatinga.

Accidents and incidents

• 12 June 1982: a TABA Fairchild Hiller FH-227 registration PT-LBV en route from Eirunepé to Tabatinga while on approach to Tabatinga collided with a pole in poor visibility and crashed onto a parking lot. All 40 passengers and 4 crew died.^[4][5]
• 29 October 2009: a Brazilian Air Force Cessna 208 Caravan registration FAB-2725 en route from Cruzeiro do Sul do Tabatinga made an emergency landing on a river due engine failure. Of the 11 occupants, 1 passenger and 1 crew member died.^[6]

See also

• List of airports in Brazil

References

1. "Estatísticas" (in Portuguese). Infraero. 2 February 2016. Retrieved 6 July 2016.
2. "Airport Official Website" (in Portuguese). Infraero.
3. "Lista de aeródromos públicos" (in Portuguese). ANAC.
4. "Accident description PT-LBV". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 30 May 2011.
5. Germano da Silva, Carlos Ari César (2008). "Aru traiçoeiro". O rastro da bruxa: história da aviação comercial brasileira no século XX através dos seus acidentes 1928-1996 (in Portuguese) (2 ed.). Porto Alegre: EDIPUCRS. pp. 327–331. ISBN 978-85-7430-760-2.
6. "Accident description FAB-2725". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved 16 June 2011.

External links

• Airport information for SBTT at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
• Airport information for SBTT at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
• Current weather for SBTT at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for TBT at Aviation Safety Network