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2 unusual facts about Ministro Pistarini International Airport


Buenos Aires Airport

Ministro Pistarini International Airport, also known as Ezeiza, located 30km outside of the city, serving mostly international routes (IATA: EZE, ICAO: SAEZ)

Buenos Aires International Airport

Ministro Pistarini International Airport, an airport 30km outside Buenos Aires, Argentina handling most international air traffic


Boeing 377

;April 29, 1952: Pan Am Flight 202, a Stratocruiser 10-26 (N1039V, named Clipper Good Hope) en route from Buenos Aires-Ezeiza and Rio de Janeiro-Galeão to New York via Port of Spain crashed in the jungle in the south of the State of Pará.

LAN Chile Flight 160

Flight 160 took off from Ministro Pistarini International Airport at 23:56 GMT (20:56 local time), but when nearing Santiago the Boeing 727 descended below the minimum height of 2829 feet and kept on descending until it struck the ground in farm land north of Colina, Chile.


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