Cutral Có Airport

Cutral Có Airport (IATA: CUT, ICAO: SAZW) is an airport serving Cutral Có, Neuquén province, Argentina. The airport covers and area of 260 hectares (640 acres), and has a 400-square-metre (4,300 sq ft) covered terminal.^[3]

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It started out that all the buildings at the airportâ they were building a whole new airport, not just the theme structureâ and all the buildings were to be shells. And I was the only guy around L.A. that really had any experience in shells, so they came to me for the structural engineering. And this was three very big architectural firms: Pereira and Luckmanâ they were partners at that time, Welton Becket, and Paul Williams. So we started out with all kinds of shells that we were doing. The LAX theme building was never anything more than just a restaurant. It was anticipated that people would use it who were catching flights, and, actually, I think probably most of their clientele was people just going to it because it's so unusual. It was to be in the center all right, but that was just so that it would be the center of attention. And, of course, since then it's become almost like the symbol of Los Angeles. Who's ever seen a building like this before, you know?

Accidents and incidents

14 April 1976: A Yacimientos Petrolíferos Fiscales Avro 748, registration LV-HHB, that was transferring staff between Rincón de los Sauces and Cutral Có, crashed 35 kilometres (22 mi) north of the intended destination. The aircraft was approximately half an hour into the flight, at 4,000 feet (1,200 m), when both the starboard wing and the starboard horizontal stabiliser detached from the fuselage, causing the aircraft to corkscrew to the ground, crashing and bursting into flames. All 34 occupants of the aircraft — 31 passengers and a crew of three — died in the accident.^[4]^[5]