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Hyderabad Airport (Sindh)

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Airport type
  
Public

02/20
  
2,132

Code
  
HDD

Phone
  
+92 344 9260323

Elevation AMSL
  
135 ft / 41 m

2,132
  
6,997

Elevation
  
41 m

Hyderabad Airport (Sindh)

Operator
  
Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority

Serves
  
Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan

Address
  
Airport Rd, Hyderabad 71000, Pakistan

Similar
  
Hyderabad Railway Station, Sir Cowasji Jehangir Institute o, Boulevard Mall Hyderabad, Ufone, TCS Area Office Hyderabad

The Hyderabad Airport (IATA: HDD, ICAO: OPKD) of Pakistan is a domestic airport in Hyderabad, the second-largest city in the Sindh province. It is very close to the Pakistan Army's Sindh Regimental Centre and the HDA Kohsar Housing Society. The airport is now closed to commercial traffic as of 2013.

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History

Hyderabad Airport was closed to commercial traffic in 1998 for a period of ten years. It reopened on 19 August 2008 with Pakistan International Airlines announcing flights twice weekly to Islamabad and Lahore via Nawabshah.

However, the airport has been closed again to commercial traffic in 2013.

Events

  • On 25 May 1998, PIA Flight 544 was a flight that was hijacked in Turbat. The final stand off between the hijackers and armed forces took place at Hyderabad Airport resulting in the eventual capture of two of the three hijackers. The third was killed.

    • References

    Hyderabad Airport (Sindh) Wikipedia
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