Nonstop flight route between Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil and Butterworth, South Africa:

About this route:

A direct, nonstop flight between Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro Airport (MOC), Montes Claros, Minas Gerais, Brazil and RMAF Butterworth (UTE), Butterworth, South Africa would travel a Great Circle distance of 9,895 miles (or 15,924 kilometers).

A Great Circle is the shortest distance between 2 points on a sphere. Because most world maps are flat (but the Earth is round), the route of the shortest distance between 2 points on the Earth will often appear curved when viewed on a flat map, especially for long distances. If you were to simply draw a straight line on a flat map and measure a very long distance, it would likely be much further than if you were to lay a string between those two points on a globe. Because of the large distance between Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro Airport and RMAF Butterworth, the route shown on this map most likely appears curved because of this reason.

Try it at home! Get a globe and tightly lay a string between Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro Airport and RMAF Butterworth. You'll see that it will travel the same route of the red line on this map!

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Facts about Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro Airport (MOC):

• The closest airport to Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro Airport (MOC) is Januária Airport (JNA), which is located 93 miles (150 kilometers) NNW of MOC.
• The furthest airport from Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro Airport (MOC) is Yap International Airport (YAP), which is located 11,923 miles (19,188 kilometers) away in Yap, Federated States of Micronesia.
• Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro Airport handled 322,176 passengers last year.
• The airport was inaugurated in 1939.
• Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro Airport (MOC) currently has only 1 runway.
• In addition to being known as "Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro Airport", another name for MOC is "Aeroporto de Montes Claros/Mário Ribeiro".

Facts about RMAF Butterworth (UTE):

• In addition to being known as "RMAF Butterworth", other names for UTE include "TUDM Butterworth", "BWH" and "WMKB".
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• During the Malayan Emergency that was to last from 1948 to 1960, RAF as well as RAAF and RNZAF units stationed at the airfield played an active role from 1950 in helping to curb the communist insurgency in the jungles of Malaya by attacking suspected hideouts and harassing the communist guerrillas.
• Because of RMAF Butterworth's relatively low elevation of 8 feet, planes can take off or land at RMAF Butterworth at a lower air speed than at airports located at a higher elevation. This is because the air density is higher closer to sea level than it would otherwise be at higher elevations.
• The furthest airport from RMAF Butterworth (UTE) is Cap. FAP Guillermo Concha Iberico International Airport (PIU), which is nearly antipodal to RMAF Butterworth (meaning RMAF Butterworth is almost on the exact opposite side of the Earth from Cap. FAP Guillermo Concha Iberico International Airport), and is located 12,365 miles (19,900 kilometers) away in Piura, Peru.
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• On 30 June 1988, the airfield was handed over by RAAF to the Royal Malaysian Air Force and was renamed as RMAF Station Butterworth.
• The RAF airfield was subsequently captured by units of the advancing 25th Army on 20 December 1941 and the control of the airbase was to remain in the hands of IJA until the end of hostilities in September 1945.
• RMAF Butterworth (UTE) currently has only 1 runway.
• The closest airport to RMAF Butterworth (UTE) is RMAF Butterworth (BWH), which is located only 0 mile (0 kilometer) N of UTE.