• 29 November 2012: A
Boeing 737-800 of
Copa Airlines went off the runway during landing, leaving the main landing gear about 3 feet from the concrete. There were no injuries and the accident was caused by heavy rain falling at the time. • 16 September 2011: TAME Flight 148 from Loja, 97 passengers & 6 crew, slipped off the runway at 19:11. A government official said some passengers suffered "light contusions", but none perished. Airport operations were halted for 3.5 hrs. • 27 October 2009: An
Ecuadorian Air Force HAL Dhruv helicopter crashed during display maneuvers at Mariscal Sucre International Airport, with both pilots sustaining only minor scratches and no casualties. The aircraft was flying in military formation with two other helicopters. • 19 March 2009: An
Ecuadorian Air Force Beechcraft B200 King Air struck a building in the Guápulo district of Quito while on approach to Mariscal Sucre International Airport in heavy fog. All five occupants of the aircraft were killed, as well as two people on the ground. • 23 September 2008: An
Icaro Air Fokker F28 Mk4000 skidded off the runway. There were no injuries among the 62 passengers, but the aircraft was written off. • 9 November 2007: An
Iberia Airbus A340-600 operating
Iberia Flight 6463 was badly damaged after sliding off runway 35 and coming to a stop in the runway safety area. The landing gear collapsed and two engines were dislodged. All 333 passengers and crew were evacuated via inflatable slides, but no serious injuries were reported. • 20 April 2005: During a national
popular revolt that deposed
President Lucio Gutiérrez, protesters breached the airport perimeter with vehicles and
blocked the runway as Gutiérrez attempted to flee Quito in an
Ecuadorian Army Super King Air. The protester's assault resulted in the closure of the airport for several hours and forced the pilots to abort takeoff, after which Gutiérrez boarded an Army
Alouette II helicopter, which had earlier removed him from
Carondelet Palace, and fled to the safe haven of the Brazilian ambassador's residency in Quito before leaving for exile. • 17 January 2003: A
TAME Fokker F28 Mk4000 suffered a
runway excursion after takeoff was aborted due to a tire blowout. The nose gear collapsed, and the aircraft came to rest past the runway threshold and into the runway safety area. There were no injuries. • 29 August 1998:
Cubana de Aviación Flight 389, a
Tupolev Tu-154M overshot the runway, killing the 14-member crew, 56 of the 77 passengers and 10 people on the ground. a
Boeing 727-200, aborted takeoff in rainy weather, but overshot the runway and ended up in the middle of a road that lay at the end of runway 35. The aircraft was overloaded. On the plane were the players of a Brazilian
Corinthians soccer team. • 3 May 1995: The pilot of a
Gulfstream II operated by American Jet, inbound from
Buenos Aires via
La Paz, selected the wrong
VOR frequency during a nighttime approach to Quito; the jet flew further south than it should have, striking the
Sincholagua volcano at . All seven occupants were killed. The flight was carrying an important number of oil executives from Argentina and Chile to a meeting in Quito. Amongst those killed was Argentine
YPF's CEO and president José Estenssoro, who had led privatization efforts under
Carlos Menem; Juan Pedrals Gili, the Spanish-born general manager of Chilean
ENAP as well as Manfred Hecht Mittersteiner, chief of production at ENAP's international subsidiary Sipetrol. • 10 December 1992: A
North American Sabreliner 60 operated by the
Ecuadorian Air Force clipped a 10-story building under construction south of the airport. The aircraft crashed into a residential area, killing all 10 on board and 3 on the ground. • 3 June 1988: an
Ecuadorian Air Force North American Sabreliner NA265-40A crashed in
Quito, killing all 11 people on board including the commander of the
Ecuadorian Air Force, and a high-ranking officer of
Israeli Air Force • 18 September 1984: An AECA (Aeroservicios Ecuatorianos)
Douglas DC-8-50 freighter
failed to achieve altitude during takeoff, running off the end of the runway and crashing into a residential area past the runway, destroying 25 houses, killing all 4 crewmembers and 49 people
on the ground • 29 April 1982: A
Lockheed C-130 Hercules operated by the
Ecuadorian Air Force crashed into a mountain near Quito while executing a
missed approach; 7 were killed. • 27 January 1980: An
Avianca Boeing 727 landed too fast, too far down the runway, and consequently overran, collapsing the nosegear. No injuries were reported. • 7 November 1960: An AREA Ecuador
Fairchild F-27A struck the dormant
Atacazo volcano in bad weather during its approach to the newly opened Mariscal Sucre International Airport after a domestic flight from
Simón Bolívar International Airport, in
Guayaquil. The crash, south of Quito and 150 meters to the summit of the Atacazo, killed all the 37 occupants of the plane. This particular aircraft (msn. 1, reg. HC-ADV) was the first prototype of the Fairchild F-27, which had been sold to AREA Ecuador in 1959. At the time, it was the worst aerial crash in the history of
Ecuador, the first and worst fatal loss of an F-27, and the first accident involving the then-recently opened Quito airport. ==Notes==