Bandar Abbas International Airport
Encyclopedia
Bandar Abbas International Airport is an airport in Bandar Abbas
, the capital of Hormozgān Province
in Iran
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Bandar Abbas
Bandar-Abbas or Bandar-e ‘Abbās , also Romanized as Bandar ‘Abbās, Bandar ‘Abbāsī, and Bandar-e ‘Abbās; formerly known as Cambarão and Port Comorão to Portuguese traders, as Gombroon to English traders and as Gamrun or Gumrun to Dutch merchants) is a port city and capital of Hormozgān Province on...
, the capital of Hormozgān Province
Hormozgan Province
Hormozgan Province is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. It is in the south of the country, facing Oman. Its area is , and its provincial capital is Bandar Abbas...
in Iran
Iran
Iran , officially the Islamic Republic of Iran , is a country in Southern and Western Asia. The name "Iran" has been in use natively since the Sassanian era and came into use internationally in 1935, before which the country was known to the Western world as Persia...
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Airlines and destinations
Incidents
- Iran Air Flight 655Iran Air Flight 655Iran Air Flight 655 was a civilian jet airliner shot down by U.S. missiles on 3 July 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz, toward the end of the Iran–Iraq War...
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).