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Mariscal Lamar International Airport (Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Mariscal Lamar) (IATA: CUE, ICAO: SECU) is an airport serving Cuenca, a city in the province of Azuay in Ecuador.
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The airport resides at an elevation of 8,306 feet (2,532 m) above mean sea level. It has one runway designated 05/23 with an asphalt surface measuring 6,234 by 118 feet (1,900 m × 36 m). Since 2002 the ILS system for the airport is available and fully operational. Despite improvements the location of the airport in the middle of the city is a major handicap, as the runway is only barely long enough for large planes landing at this altitude. This has resulted in a few accidents involving planes running off the end of the runway, a restriction on flights in wet weather during much of 2016, and at the end of 2016 the airport completed a resurfacing of the runway to improve traction in wet weather.
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Incidents
- On 20 October 1971, a Vickers Viscount of SAETA was hijacked by six people. It landed at Cuenca Airport.
- On 8 October 1982, Vickers Viscount HC-ATV of SAN Ecuador was damaged beyond economic repair.
- On 11 July 1983, a Boeing 737 operating a TAME flight from Quito to Cuenca, crashed killing all 117 on board on final approach to the airport.
- On 28 April 2016, an Embraer E190, operating a TAME flight from Quito to Cuenca, slid off the end of the runway. No injuries or deaths were reported, but flight operations were limited afterwards as the Dirección General de Aviación Civil de Ecuador prohibited aircraft from landing if the runway was wet. This led to runway resurfacing work, completed in late 2016.
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