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The airport is the hub for several Chilean airlines including Chile's largest national and international airline, Lan Chile, LanExpress, and the maligned Aerocontinente Chile which has been the subject of a drug trafficking investigation by Chilean police. The airport used to be the main hub for Ladeco, another major Chilean international airline, since acquired by Lan Chile. A Boeing 747-400 of Virgin Atlantic Airways, one of the UKs largest airlines. ... Lan (formerly LanChile) is a airline based at Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport in Santiago, Chile, with flights to Latin America, North America, Polynesia, and Europe. ...

No major airline accidents have happened at the site, but this has not stopped tragedy from knocking at the doors of the airport. In 1972, a propeller-plane chartered by an Uruguayan rugby team, from the country's air force, crash-landed on the Chilean side of the Andes while en route to the airport, leaving many people dead and others to die days later. The survivors of the accident (who were travelling to Santiago to play a rugby match) and the stories they experienced during the months stranded in the high-Andes, became the subject of a 1993 Hollywood movie Alive: The Miracle of the Andes. See Andes flight disaster. 1972 was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Rugby football, as a catch-all term, may refer to two related but separate team sports: rugby league and rugby union. ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... For other uses, see Hollywood (disambiguation) Greetings from Hollywood Hollywood is a district of the City of Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., that runs from about Vermont Avenue on the east to just beyond Laurel Canyon Boulevard above Sunset and Crescent Heights Boulevards on the west; the north to... Alive: The Miracle of the Andes is a 1993 movie directed by Frank Marshall that narrates this story which is one of (if not the most) notable cases of surviving cannibalism in modern history. ... On 13 October 1972 an Uruguayan Air Force twin turboprop Fairchild FH-227D was flying over the Andes carrying the Stella Maris (Christian Brothers) schools Old Christians rugby team from Montevideo, Uruguay to play a match in Santiago, Chile. ...

On October 2, 1996, AeroPeru Flight 603, a Boeing 757 that was enroute from Lima's Jorge Chavez International Airport to Santiago, Chile crashed into the Pacific Ocean. Everyone on board died. October 2nd is the 275th day (276th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 90 days remaining. ... 1996 is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... AeroPeru Flight 603 was a scheduled Santiago-Lima-Mexico City_Los Angeles-Miami flight which crashed on October 2, 1996. ... The Boeing 757 is a medium-range transcontinental commercial passenger airplane manufactured by Boeing Commercial Airplanes. ... This article is about Lima, Peru. ... Jorge Chávez International Airport (IATA Airport Code: LIM) is Perus main national and international gateway, serving over 4. ...

Airlines serving Arturo Merino Benitez International Airport include:

• Aerolíneas Argentinas
• Aeroméxico
• Air France
• American Airlines
• Copa
• Cubana De Aviacion
• Delta Airlines
• Lacsa
• Iberia
• Lan Chile
• Lanexpress
• Lloyd Aereo Boliviano
• Martinair
• Pluna
• Swiss International Air Lines
• Tame
• United Airlines
• Varig

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External link

• Official web site (http://www.aeropuertosantiago.cl/)