Mashhad International Airport[2] (Persian:فرودگاه بینالمللی شهید هاشمینژاد مشهد) (IATA:MHD,ICAO:OIMM) is an international airport located inMashhad,Razavi Khorasan province,Iran. The airbase serves jointly as a civilian airport and a military airbase.[3]
Mashhad international airport is the Iran's second-busiest airport, behindTehran Mehrabad Airport. In 2016, Mashhad Airport handled a record 10 million-plus passengers, up 17% from 2015, along with 86,681 tons of cargo.[4] It has flights to 57 destinations, including frequent flights to 30 Iranian cities, and 27 destinations in Central Asia, the Middle East, East Asia and Europe.[5]
Mashhad International Airport has three terminals: adomestic flight terminal (Terminal 1), aninternational flight terminal (Terminal 2), and aHajj flight terminal (Terminal 3).[6]
The airbase serves jointly as a civilian airport and a military airbase.[3]
In 1988,Kuwait Airways Flight 422, was hijacked and then diverted to Mashhad. The hijackers made some demands and then ordered the plane to fly to Cyprus and Algeria.
On 1 September 2006,Iran Air Tours Flight 945, aTupolev Tu-154 flying fromBandar Abbas skidded off the Mashhad runway after a tire blew during landing. The aircraft caught fire, and 28 of the 147 people on board died in the accident.[20]
On 24 July 2009,Aria Air Flight 1525, anIlyushin Il-62, route THR-MHD (Tehran Mehrabad, to Mashhad) crashed with 173 people on board and caught fire; five passengers and 11 crew members died.[21]
On 24 January 2010,Taban Air Flight 6437, aTupolev Tu-154M, crashed while making an emergency landing at the airport due to a medical emergency; all 157 passengers and 13 crew survived the accident; 42 received minor injuries.[22] It was reported that the aircraft was on anILS landing in fog when the tail struck the ground, causing the plane to veer off the runway. This was followed by a nose gear collapse, then the right wing struck the ground, causing the aircraft to burst into flames.[23][24]
On 28 January 2016, Zagros Airlines Flight 4010 was landing at Runway 31R when theMcDonnell Douglas MD-83, registration EP-ZAB, skidded off the runway. The aircraft was damaged beyond repair and seven people suffered minor injuries.[25][26]
On 24 May 2018, theTapandegan (Palpitaters inPersian), an Iranianhacker group, hacked thearrival and departure monitors at the airport, posting anti-government messages and images on the monitors, forcing airport authorities to manually turn off the monitors one by one.[27]
^International Traffic Report (Report). Department of Aviation and Airport Statistics and Information, Iranian Airports Holding Company. February 2017. Archived fromthe original on 19 February 2017. Retrieved19 February 2017.
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