Karachi / Jinnah International Airport

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Karachi / Jinnah International Airport
PK Karachi Airport asv2020-01.jpg
Characteristics
ICAO code OPKC
IATA code KHI
Coordinates

24 ° 54 '24 "  N , 67 ° 9' 39"  E Coordinates: 24 ° 54 '24 "  N , 67 ° 9' 39"  E
Height above MSL 30 m (98  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center 10 km northeast of Karachi
Basic data
opening 1929
operator Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority
Passengers 6,196,903 (2015/16)
Air freight 187,171 t (2015/16)
Flight
movements 		55,461 (2015/16)
Runways
07R / 25L 3400 m × 46 m concrete
07L / 25R 3200 m × 46 m concrete

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Interior of the passenger terminal

The Karachi / Jinnah International Airport , also Karachi airport or airport Jinnah International ( English Jinnah International Airport ) (formerly Quaid-e-Azam International Airport , IATA code : KHI ; ICAO code : OPKC , Urdu جناح بین الاقوامی ہوائی اڈہ), is Pakistan 's largest international and domestic airport . It is located northeast of Karachi , the largest city in Pakistan, in Sindh Province and was built in 1929. The name of the airport is reminiscent of Muhammad Ali Jinnah , the founder of the state of Pakistan.

The airport is the aviation hub for the flag carrier Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) and other smaller companies.

Airport infrastructure

The airport has two runways at a height of 30 m above sea level. d. M. and has 16 gates. The airport operator is the Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority. Theoretically 30 aircraft can be handled here at the same time, 6 million passengers are handled annually (of a possible 12 million).

The airport has a main terminal, which is divided into two halls (English: Concourses). The Jinnah East Satellite Concourse is used for international flights, while the Jinnah West Satellite Concourse is used for domestic flights.

Incidents

  • On March 3, 1953, the pilots of a De Havilland DH.106 Comet 1A ( aircraft registration CF-CUN ) of Canadian Pacific Airlines took the aircraft nose up too steeply when taking off from Karachi; the machine shot over the end of the track and fell into a dry river bed. The machine was on its delivery flight to Canada. All 11 inmates were killed. It was the first fatal accident involving a passenger jet.
  • On March 8, 1967, an Aviation Traders ATL-98 from Compagnie Air Transport (F-BMHU) lost altitude again when taking off from Karachi Airport and crashed onto a road bridge, destroying rickshaws and a truck. The take-off weight of the fully loaded machine was too high for the prevailing weather conditions. Four of the six crew members and seven people on the ground were killed.
  • On November 27, 2010 ( UTC ), the Ilyushin Il-76 TD with the registration number 4L-GNI of the Georgian Sun Way crashed shortly after taking off from Karachi Airport in an adjacent residential area. The trigger was engine damage to the right outer engine (engine 4), which disassembled and probably damaged part of the landing flaps . All eight people on board died, another three on the ground. The machine was overloaded by five tons. On several previous flights, several attempts and the activation of the engine de-icing were required in order to get engine 4 going. The engine explosion was then triggered by a corrosion-related fatigue fracture in the second compressor stage. The accident report also points out that the technical logbooks for the aircraft and engines were not available, that the prescribed overhaul time for all four engines was overdue and that the entire aircraft - without further maintenance - had already exceeded its maximum operating time by six years.
  • On May 22, 2020, an Airbus A320 from Lahore of Pakistan International Airlines with 91 passengers and 8 crew members crashed on approach. According to previous knowledge, the pilots landed with the landing gear retracted and aborted the landing after the aircraft had already touched down with the engines on the runway. Shortly thereafter, both engines, which were probably damaged when touching down, failed. After that, the pilots tried to reach the airport, but because of the low altitude they couldn't. The plane crashed in a densely populated residential area about 2 km from the runway. 97 of the 99 occupants were killed and several people were injured on the ground (see also Pakistan International Airlines flight 8303 ).

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Major Traffic Flows By Airports During The Year July 2015 / June 2016. (PDF) In: caapakistan.com.pk. Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority, accessed March 15, 2018 .
  2. ^ The Satellites ( memento April 25, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) on karachiairport.com.pk , accessed June 15, 2014
  3. ↑ Air-Britain Archive: Casualty compendium (English), March 1995, pp. 95/25.
  4. ^ Accident report Comet 1A CF-CUN , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 20, 2017.
  5. ^ Accident report ATL-98 F-BMHU , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on September 18, 2017.
  6. ^ Tony Eastwood and John Roach: Piston Engine Airliner Production List . The Aviation Hobby Shop, West Drayton, 1996, ISBN 0-907178-61-8 , p. 11.
  7. ↑ Crash: Sun Way IL76 at Karachi on Nov 28th 2010, engine fire. In: The Aviation Herald . avherald.com, November 28, 2010, accessed January 19, 2015 .
  8. ^ Accident report IL-46 4L-GNI , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on August 20, 2017.
  9. ↑ Flight International , March 21, 2017: Ilyushin was years beyond service life and 5t overweight (English), p. 14.