Bandar Abbas International Airport

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Bandar Abbas International Airport
IATA: BND – ICAO: OIKB
BND is located in Iran
BND
BND
Location of airport in Iran
Summary
Airport type Public / Military
Serves Bandar Abbas, Iran
Elevation AMSL 22 ft / 7 m
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
03R/21L 3,660 12,008 Asphalt
03L/21R 3,457 11,341 Asphalt
Source: DAFIF[1][2]

Bandar Abbas International Airport (IATA: BND, ICAO: OIKB) is an airport in Bandar Abbas, the capital of Hormozgān Province in Iran.

Airlines and destinations

Airlines Destinations
Ata Airlines Tehran–Mehrabad
Caspian Airlines Tehran–Mehrabad
flydubai Dubai–International
Iran Air Ahvaz, Chabahar, Dubai–International, Isfahan, Sari, Shiraz, Tabriz, Tehran–Mehrabad, Yazd
Iran Air Tours Abadan, Baghdad, Isfahan, Kermanshah, Mashhad, Shiraz, Zahedan
Iran Aseman Airlines Doha, Dubai–International, Isfahan, Kermanshah, Mashhad, Noshahr, Rasht, Shiraz, Tehran–Mehrabad, Yazd
Iranian Naft Airlines Ahvaz, Dubai–International, Kish Island
Kish Air Abu Musa, Dubai–International, Isfahan, Kish Island, Tehran-Mehrabad
Mahan Air Mashhad, Tabriz, Tehran–Mehrabad
Meraj Airlines Tehran–Mehrabad[3]
Qeshm Airlines Kish Island, Tehran–Mehrabad
Saudia Seasonal: Jeddah, Medina
Zagros Airlines Mashhad

Incidents

  • Iran Air Flight 655 took off at Bandar Abbas on July 3, 1988, only to be shot down by the USS Vincennes of the U.S. Navy, killing all 290 on board.
  • 2005 Iranian Air Force C-130 crash: A Lockheed C-130 Hercules crashed into a ten-storey apartment building in downtown Tehran on 6 December 2005, after takeoff from Tehran Mehrabad airport. The flight was attempting to return to Mehrabad with engine trouble when it crashed, killing 128 (10 crew, 84 passengers, and 34 people in the building, many of them children staying home due to high smog levels in the city). The flight was bound for Bandar Abbas.
  • Iran Air Tours Flight 945, a scheduled flight from Bandar Abbas to Mashhad on 1 September 2006, crashed on landing at Mashhad after a landing failure caused the Tupolev Tu-154M to leave the runway, killing 28 of the 148 on board (137 passengers, 11 crew).
  • IRIAF F-4 Phantom II crashed near Bandar Abbas on October 14, 2012, killing two airmen.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Airport information for OIKB at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
  2. ↑ Airport information for BND at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
  3. ↑ http://bandarabbas.airport.ir
  4. ↑ [II http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4291863,00.html]

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