Bandar Abbas International Airport
| Bandar Abbas International Airport فرودگاه بینالمللی بندرعباس | |||||||||||||||
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| IATA: BND – ICAO: OIKB | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public / Military | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Iranian Airports Holding Company | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Bandar Abbas, Iran | ||||||||||||||
| Elevation AMSL | 22 ft / 7 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 27°13′05″N 56°22′40″E / 27.21806°N 56.37778°ECoordinates: 27°13′05″N 56°22′40″E / 27.21806°N 56.37778°E | ||||||||||||||
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  BND Location of airport in Iran | |||||||||||||||
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Bandar Abbas International Airport (IATA: BND, ICAO: OIKB) is an international airport in Bandar Abbas, the capital of Hormozgān Province in Iran.
Airlines and destinations
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.[3]
See also
- Iran Civil Aviation Organization
- Transport in Iran
- List of airports in Iran
- List of the busiest airports in Iran
- List of airlines of Iran
- Bandar Abbas
- Iran
References
- ↑ Iranian Airports Holding Company (Feb 2016). International Traffic Report (PDF) (Report). گروه آمار و اطلاعات هوانوردی و فرودگاهی. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
- ↑ http://bandarabbas.airport.ir
- ↑ [II http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4291863,00.html]
External links
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