Thandwe Airport

Thandwe Airport
Thandwe Airport
IATA: SNW – ICAO: VYTD SNW Location of airport in Burma
Summary
Airport type	Public
Operator	Government
Serves	Thandwe, Myanmar
Elevation AMSL	20 ft / 6 m
Coordinates	18°27′38″N 094°18′00″E / 18.46056°N 94.3°E
Runways
	Source: DAFIF

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Thandwe Airport (IATA: SNW, ICAO: VYTD) is an airport serving Thandwe, a town in the Rakhine State of Burma.

[edit] Airlines and destinations

On 16 August 1972, a Douglas C-47B, registration XY-ACM of Burma Airways crashed shortly after take-off on a scheduled passenger flight. Twenty-eight people on board were killed and only 3 survived.^[3]

^ Airport information for VYTD at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
^ Airport information for SNW at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
^ "XY-ACM Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19720816-2. Retrieved 7 September 2010.

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