Manguinhos Airport
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Manguinhos Airport Aeroporto de Manguinhos |
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| Airport type | Public/Military | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Rio de Janeiro | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 22°52′30″S 043°14′44″W / 22.87500°S 43.24556°WCoordinates: 22°52′30″S 043°14′44″W / 22.87500°S 43.24556°W | ||||||||||||||
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Manguinhos Airport was an airport that existed in the neighborhood of Manguinhos, near Oswaldo Cruz Foundation in Rio de Janeiro from 1936 to 1972.
The origin of Manguinhos Airport is related to (English: Brazil Flying club), a school of aviation founded in 1911 at Campo dos Afonsos Airport. In 1919 the Brazilian Army decided to locate at this facility the School of Military Aviation and forced the Flying Club to move elsewhere.
The board of directors decided to re-locate its facilities near Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and for that land was flattened and a swamp drained. An official property land-title was however never given to the Flying Club; it just occupied the site with the acknowledgement of authorities. Manguinhos was officially opened in 1936 although it had been in use before this year. In fact, around this time whereas Santos Dumont Airport served mainly to hydroplanes, aircraft with landing gear used the Manguinhos facilities. In fact, ETA – Empresa de Transporte Aéreo had its operational base at the airport.
On December 22, 1959 a major accident led to the eventual closure of the airport: a VASP Vickers Viscount 827 and a Brazilian Air Force Fokker S-11 based at Afonsos Air Force Base collided in the air very close to Manguinhos Airport. The VASP aircraft, originated at Brasília, and on approach to land at Rio de Janeiro-Galeão, crashed killing its 32 occupants and 10 persons on the ground. The cadet parachuted to safety. According to the press, the pilot of the Fokker, the Air Force cadet Eduardo da Silva Pereira, with only 19 flight-hours, was trying to impress his girl-friend by doing manoeuvres over her house in the proximity of Manguinhos Airport and collided with the Viscount. Official investigations however state that the cadet was training manoeuvres outside the designated training area and did not see the Viscount approaching. Moreover, the aircraft had no radio communication equipment. The cadet left the Air Force one year later because of other reasons.
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