Marabá Airport

João Correa da Rocha Airport Aeroporto João Correa da Rocha
IATA: MAB – ICAO: SBMA
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Infraero
Serves	Marabá
Elevation AMSL	109 m / 357 ft
Coordinates	05°22′04″S 049°08′18″W / 5.36778°S 49.13833°WCoordinates: 05°22′04″S 049°08′18″W / 5.36778°S 49.13833°W
Website	Infraero MAB
Map
MAB Location in Brazil
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 07/25 2,000 6,562 Asphalt
Statistics (2013)
Passengers 465,969 Aircraft Operations 16,912 Metric tonnes of cargo 2,231
Statistics: Infraero[1] Sources: Airport Website,[2] ANAC[3]

João Correa da Rocha Airport (IATA: MAB, ICAO: SBMA) is the airport serving Marabá, Brazil.

It is operated by Infraero.

History

The airport was inaugurated on May 20, 1978.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines	Destinations
Azul Brazilian Airlines	Belo Horizonte-Confins, Brasília, Belém, Araguaína, Tucuruí, Carajás
Gol Airlines	Belém, Brasília
TAM Airlines	Belém, Brasília

Accidents and incidents

• 3 September 1989: a Varig Boeing 737-241 registration PP-VMK operating flight 254 flying from São Paulo-Guarulhos to Belém-Val de Cans with intermediate stops, crashed near São José do Xingu while on the last leg of the flight between Marabá and Belém due to a pilot navigational error, which led to fuel exhaustion and a subsequent belly landing into the jungle, 450 miles (724 km) southwest of Marabá. Out of 54 occupants, there were 13 fatalities, all of them passengers. The survivors were discovered two days later.^[4][5]

Access

The airport is located 5 km (3 mi) from downtown Marabá.

See also

• List of airports in Brazil

References

1. "Movimento operacional da rede Infraero de janeiro a dezembro de 2013" (PDF) (in Portuguese). Infraero. February 4, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2014.
2. "Airport Official Website" (in Portuguese). Infraero.
3. "Lista de aeródromos públicos" (in Portuguese). ANAC.
4. "Accident description PP-VMK". Aviation Safety Network. Retrieved June 25, 2011.
5. Germano da Silva, Carlos Ari César (2008). "Rumo errado". 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. 352–360. ISBN 978-85-7430-760-2.

External links

• Airport information for SBMA at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
• Airport information for SBMA at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
• Current weather for SBMA at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for MAB at Aviation Safety Network
• Marabá Airport Photo Archive at airliners.net