Bandar Abbas International Airport

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Airport type Public / Military Elevation AMSL 22 ft / 7 m 03R/21L 3,660 Elevation 22 m Yearly aircraft movements 8,240		Serves Bandar Abbas, Iran Website bandarabbas.airport.ir Code BND Phone +98 76 3361 1020 Passenger count 934,053

Operator Iranian Airports Holding Company Address Hormozgan Province, Bandar Abbas, چهار راه پگاه, Iran Similar Bandar Abbas Railway, Hormoz Hotel, Qeshm South Airport, Havadarya Airport فرودگاه هوا

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

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.

References

Bandar Abbas International Airport Wikipedia

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