2024 San Fernando Airport Bombardier Challenger 300 crash

On 18 December 2024, a Bombardier Challenger 300 aircraft, registration LV-GOK from Punta del Este, Uruguay, suffered an excursion and went off the runway while trying to land at the San Fernando International Airport in the Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina, colliding with the front of a home in a neighborhood bordering the airport.

[1] On 18 December 2024, a Bombardier Challenger 300 jet, registered as LV-GOK and originating from Punta del Este, Uruguay, overran the runway while attempting to land at San Fernando International Airport in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.

[2][3][4] As a result of the accident, both pilots died, their identities being known as Martín Fernández Loza, 44 years old, and Agustín Orforte, 35, the only crew members who were on board.

[5] According to aeronautical records, that day the plane had made two trips, the first heading to Punta del Este at 11:12 a.m. and landing at 11:44, and later leaving for San Fernando, after a stopover in Rio de Janeiro, arriving at 1:18 p.m., the time when the tragedy occurred.

[9][10] In 1998, at the age of 20, Fernandez Loza had been in a coma after being thrown off the Belgrano Norte Train during an attempted robbery aboard while he was going to a class at the Aviation School in Don Torcuato, Buenos Aires Province.