| Saposoa Airport | |
| Icao: | SPOA |
| Type: | Public |
| City-Served: | Saposoa |
| Elevation-F: | 1148 |
| Coordinates: | -6.9569°N -76.7694°W |
| Pushpin Map: | Peru |
| Pushpin Label: | SPOA |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of the airport in Peru |
| R1-Number: | 17/35 |
| R1-Length-M: | 1800 |
| R1-Surface: | Grass |
| Metric-Rwy: | y |
| Footnotes: | Source: GCM Google Maps[1] |
Saposoa Airport is an airport serving the town of Saposoa in the San Martín Region of Peru. The runway is south of the town, on the opposite side of the Saposoa River.
On November 5, 1994, a Yakovlev Yak-40 trijet (registration OB-1569) belonging to Amazonic Air Services (Servicios Aéreos Amazónicos), a now-defunct regional airline, that was serving the Trujillo-Saposoa-Juanjuí-Tocache-Lima schedule, crashed into the aforementioned river after overrunning the airstrip during landing. The aircraft crashed due to the decision of the Ukrainian instructor pilot to land despite heavy rain and poor visual conditions reported at the time which led the aircraft to touch half down the wet runway and not having enough space to brake, leading to the accident.[2]
A contributing factor was the pilot's conflict with the Peruvian copilot over the decision to land, and the latter reportedly tried to abort the landing at the last moment.[3] Of the 31 occupants (26 passengers and 5 crew) 5 passengers and 1 crewmen died.[4] [5]