Viru Viru International Airport - Incidents

Incidents

  • On March 8, 2006, an Argentine airforce Learjet 35 flying from El Alto International Airport in La Paz to Viru Viru crashed after take off, killing all six people on board.
  • 23 July 2010: an AeroSur Boeing 737 flying from Miami, Florida, USA, to Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, with 122 passengers and 6 crew members on board, lost cabin pressurization at 08:00 UTC over the Brazilian Amazonia and therefore was forced to land at Rio Branco International Airport. No one was hurt.

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