Bandar Abbas International Airport (IATA: BND, ICAO: OIKB) (Persian: فرودگاه بین المللی بندرعباس) is an international airport located 12 kilometers east of the city of Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan Province, in southern Iran.[2] The airport has flight connections to different parts of Iran and countries of south of Persian Gulf, and about 1,289,000 passengers passed through it in 2017. This airport is able to handle widebody aircraft such as Boeing 777 or Boeing 747.
Bandar Abbas International Airport فرودگاه بین المللی بندرعباس | |||||||||||||||
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| Airport type | Public/Military | ||||||||||||||
| Owner | Government of Iran | ||||||||||||||
| Operator | Iran Airports Company Iranian Air Force Islamic Republic of Iran Navy Aviation Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps | ||||||||||||||
| Serves | Bandar Abbas, Hormozgan | ||||||||||||||
| Location | Bandar Abbas, Iran | ||||||||||||||
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| Elevation AMSL | 22 ft / 7 m | ||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 27°13′05″N 56°22′40″E / 27.21806°N 56.37778°E | ||||||||||||||
| Website | bandarabbas | ||||||||||||||
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  BND Location of airport in Iran | |||||||||||||||
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Source: Iran Airports Company[1] | |||||||||||||||
Airlines and destinations
editIncidents
edit- Iran Air Flight 655 was shot down after departing from Bandar Abbas in 1988.
- IRIAF F-4 Phantom II crashed near Bandar Abbas on October 14, 2012, killing two airmen.[4]
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Traffic Figures". Retrieved 14 February 2018.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "List of all airports in Iran". The Airport Authority. Retrieved 2019-01-02.
- ^ "The country's newest airline has been launched". 3 May 2023.
- ^ "Report: Iranian fighter jet crashes near Bandar Abbas province". Ynetnews. 14 October 2012.
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