Bandar Abbas International Airport

Bandar Abbas International Airport فرودگاه بین‌المللی بندرعباس
IATA: BND – ICAO: OIKB BND Location of airport in Iran
Summary
Airport type	Public / Military
Operator	Iranian Airports Holding Company
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
Website	bandarabbas.airport.ir/
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 03R/21L 3,660 12,008 Asphalt 03L/21R 3,457 11,341 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Aircraft Movements 8,240 Passengers 934,053 Cargo 9,126 tons
Source: Iranian Airports Holding Company[1]

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[2]
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.^[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

1. Iranian Airports Holding Company (Feb 2016). International Traffic Report (PDF) (Report). گروه آمار و اطلاعات هوانوردی و فرودگاهی. Retrieved February 18, 2016.
2. http://bandarabbas.airport.ir
3. [II http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4291863,00.html]

External links

• Current weather for OIKB at NOAA/NWS
• Accident history for BND at Aviation Safety Network