Mashhad International Airport or Shahid Hashemi Nejad Airport Vorlage:Airport codes is located in Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran.
It has frequent flights to several cities within Iran and also international flights mostly to the Central Asia and the Middle East. The Airport is currently under an expansion project.
Airlines and destinations [1] ==
Accidents and incidents
- On 1 September 2006, an Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154 skidded off the runway as it was landing at Mashhad International Airport and caught fire. A tire had blown on the aircraft during landing. The aircraft was carrying 147 passengers, 29 of them died in the accident. The Tu-154 was flying from Bandar Abbas to Mashhad.
- On 24 July 2009, Aria Air Flight 1525, an Ilyushin Il-62, route THR-MHD (Teheran Mehrabad, Iran to Mashad, Iran) crashed with 153 passengers and caught fire; 3 passengers and 13 crew died.[2]
- On 24 January 2010, Taban Air Flight 6437, a Tupolev Tu-154M, crashed whilst making an emergency landing at Mashhad International Airport due to a medical emergency; all 157 and 13 crew survived the accident with 42 receiving minor injuries.[3] It is reported that the aircraft was on an ILS landing in fog when the tail struck the ground causing the plane to veer off the runway, followed by a nose-gear collapse, then the right wing struck the ground causing the aircraft to burst into flames.[4][5]
See also
References
External links
- Vorlage:Fa icon Mashhad International Airport
- Flughafendaten auf World Aero Data (englisch, Stand 2006). Nicht mehr online verfügbar. (Suche in Webarchiven)