Tag: Comodoro Rivadavia

• Friday, July 1st 2022 - 20:51 UTC

  Four killed in plane crash in Tierra del Fuego

  

  Four people were killed after an ambulance aircraft crashed upon takeoff from the airport in Río Grande, in the Argentine Province of Tierra del Fuego, Friday afternoon.

• Thursday, January 13th 2022 - 09:50 UTC

  Fifty years since the air link between Falkland Islands and Comodoro Rivadavia

  

  Half a century ago, on 12 January 1972, a seaplane from the Argentine Air Force landed in Stanley harbor establishing the first regular flight between Comodoro Rivadavia and the Falkland Islands. From then onwards, ”sanitary, passenger and general cargo (mail, fresh food, and medicines) became regular flights”.

• Wednesday, November 17th 2021 - 20:40 UTC

  Argentina: “Not penguins, dogs” covered in oil on Comodoro Rivadavia beach go viral

  

  Dogs covered in oil have appeared on the Comodoro Rivadavia beach in the Argentine province of Chubut, it was reported. Local residents insist poorly sealed oil wells are the reason for the environmental tragedy but say the problem is not new.

• Tuesday, June 22nd 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Patagonia university to develop noodles made of algae which shall taste like squid

  

  Argentina's National University of Patagonia San Juan Bosco from Comodoro Rivadavia, in the province of Chubut, is undertaking the development of noodles with a 30% substitution of wheat flour for algae which shall taste like squid, it was announced.

• Friday, April 9th 2021 - 10:55 UTC

  Argentine officers accused for torturing own troops during 1982 war

  

  The Federal Court of Appeals of Comodoro Rivadavia Thursday upheld in a 2-1 vote the arraignment of former Argentine officers Eduardo Gassino, Belisario Affranchino Rumi, Gustavo Calderini and Miguel Ángel Garde for “imposition of torments” on soldiers under their command during the 1982 armed conflict with the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands.

• Wednesday, March 31st 2021 - 06:47 UTC

  LADE makes maiden flight for Comodoro Rivadavia-Puerto Madryn route

  

  A De Havilland Canada DHC-6-200 Twin Otter of Argentina's Líneas Aéreas del Estado (LADE) took off from Comodoro Rivadavia airport Tuesday morning and landed at Puerto Madryn at 10.10 am in what became the new route's maiden flight.

• Monday, March 29th 2021 - 22:32 UTC

  Chinese mile 201 operators eye Argentine shipyard

  

  A consortium of Chinese companies describing themselves as mile 201 operators has expressed an interest in acquiring an Argentine shipyard in Comodoro Rivadavia, Argentina.

• Saturday, February 1st 2020 - 08:42 UTC

  Argentine squid catches during January below 2018/19 averages

  

  The first report of squid catches from the Argentine season, south of parallel 44, indicate that daily averages were below those of similar seasons in 2018 and 2019. The INIDEP report, ”Argentine Squid, Season 2020, Report to 27 January (four weeks)” shows that the 58-jigger fleet caught some 10.649 tons, with average catches during weeks 2 and 4, of 17 and 27 tons per day, below the 32 to 40 tons per day in 2018 and 2019.

• Friday, November 29th 2019 - 07:51 UTC

  Falklands South America inaugural second weekly flight occurred in May 1979

  

  The following letter was posted in the Penguin News edition of this week, signed by GW Cheek, who for several decades was head of Civil Aviation in the Falkland Islands.

• Saturday, February 16th 2019 - 09:50 UTC

  Jigger and trawler collide in Argentina's mile 201; crew rescued and heading for Montevideo

  

  A Chinese flagged jigger sank after colliding with a Spanish flagged trawler on Friday morning to the northwest of the Falkland Islands. All thirty crew members have been rescued by other fishing vessels, and are heading for Montevideo, according to the latest reports from the Argentine Coast Guard. The collision involved the jigger V Zhong Yuan Yu 11 and the trawler Pesca Vaqueiro, which went undamaged.