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Bandar Abbas International Airport IATA: GDS – ICAO: OIKB Location of airport in Iran
GDSSummary Airport type Public / Military Serves Bandar Abbas, Iran Elevation AMSL 22 ft / 7 m Coordinates 27°13′05″N 056°22′40″E / 27.21806°N 56.37778°E 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.
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Airlines and destinations
Airlines Destinations Aria Air Kish, Dubai ATA Air Tabriz, Tehran-Mehrabad Fars Air Qeshm Tehran-Mehrabad, Dubai Hesa Airlines Isfahan, Kerman, Kish Island, Tehran-Mehrabad Iran Air Ahwaz, Chabahar, Isfahan, Sary, Shiraz, Tabriz, Tehran-Mehrabad, Yazd, Dubai Iran Air Tours Isfahan, Mashhad, Shiraz, Tehran-Mehrabad, Baghdad Iran Aseman Airlines Isfahan, Kermanshah, Rasht, Shiraz, Tehran-Mehrabad, Yazd, Doha, Dubai Kish Air Abumusa, Kish Island, Dubai Mahan Air Kermanshah, Mashhad, Tehran-Mehrabad Taban Air Mashhad, Tehran-Mehrabad, Baghdad 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 US Navy, killing all 288 on board.
- 2005 Iranian Air Force C-130 crash A Lockheed C130 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 154M to leave the runway, killing 28 of the 148 on board (137 passengers, 11 crew).
References
- ^ Airport information for OIKB at World Aero Data. Data current as of October 2006.Source: DAFIF.
- ^ Airport information for BND at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective Oct. 2006).
External links
Categories:- Airports in Iran
- Hormozgan Province
- Asian airport stubs
- Iran transport stubs
- Iranian building and structure stubs
- Hormozgan Province geography stubs
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