Kabul airport
| Kabul International Airport | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | OAKB |
| IATA code | KBL |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 1791 m (5876 ft ) |
| Basic data | |
| operator | ACAA |
| Passengers | 5 million (2004) |
| Start-and runway | |
| 11/29 | 3500 m × 50 m asphalt |
The Kabul International Airport is the international airport of the Afghan capital Kabul . In addition to civil aviation, it is also used as a military airfield by the United States as part of Operation Enduring Freedom and by other NATO member states as part of the RS mandate . It is located five kilometers from the city center and is almost 1,800 meters above sea level.
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Kabul Airport was built in the early 1960s and equipped with the most modern terminal buildings in the region in the mid-1960s. At that time, Kabul was the gateway for many western tourists to the emerging country at the time. In the 1970s there were even direct connections to Frankfurt am Main and London with DC-10 through the Ariana . With the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in 1979, the airport almost completely became a military airfield. Even after the withdrawal of the Red Army in 1989, the rule of private militias and the Taliban meant that civilian use was hardly to be thought of. In October 2001, the US forces bombed the airport, destroying many military aircraft. The airport was only reopened to air traffic in 2002. The ISAF peacekeeping force was responsible for the security of flight operations until 2014. The World Bank and others financed the expansion; the German police trained border police officers who were later to take over the security of the airport. In 2004 it was planned to remove mines and erect a ten-kilometer fence around the airport site.
All business traffic for the airport and Ariana Afghan Airlines was handled in the data center of the southern German company ASS.TEC GmbH.
Ariana served Frankfurt am Main on scheduled services until July 2006 (apparently quite successfully, as the figures from the Federal Statistical Office of Wiesbaden show). Then the German aviation authorities were banned because of technical deficiencies (“black list”). In the meantime, the French Eagle Aviation flew in a subcharter for Ariana.
The former President of Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai , opened a new terminal building for the airport on November 7, 2008 . The new terminal for $ 35 million is a gift from Japan. The old terminal building had been badly damaged in the decades of the war.
The airport was renamed Hamid Karzai International Airport in October 2014, after the previous President of Afghanistan of the same name. After the dissolution of the ISAF, the airport was operated by the ACAA (Afghanistan Civil Aviation Authority). The ACAA was separated from the previous Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation (MoTCA) and formed an independent civil aviation authority.
In mid-August 2021, NATO suspended civil air traffic at the airport after the Taliban had also captured Kabul after their nationwide advance .
Incidents
- On March 19, 1998, a Boeing 727-228 of Ariana Afghan Airlines ( aircraft registration YA-FAZ) was flown 15 kilometers south of the destination airport in the Shakh-e Barantay mountain approaching Kabul airport. The machine was on its way from Sharjah ( United Arab Emirates ) via Kandahar to Kabul . All 45 people on board were killed in this CFIT ( Controlled Flight into Terrain ).
- On February 3, 2005 from could Herat coming Boeing 737-200 of the Afghan Kam Air , operated by the Kyrgyz Phoenix Aviation ( aircraft marks EX-037 ), not land as scheduled in Kabul because of a snowstorm. It crashed about 30 kilometers east in the mountains and was only found two days later. All 105 inmates were killed.
- On August 16, 2021, large numbers of locals attempted to escape in connection with the evacuation of diplomatic staff, local staff and foreign citizens by holding onto military machines as they rolled to the starting position. Several people were killed in the process. Air traffic had to be interrupted in the meantime and US soldiers secured the runway.
Web links
- Airport data in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- Kabul International Airport information on the Afghanistan Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation website
- operations.mod.uk / ... pictures of the reconstruction on the page of the engl. Ministry of Defense
Individual evidence
- ^ Resurrected from ruins In: FlugRevue November 2009, pp. 64–67
- ↑ Boris Johnson warns against recognition of a Taliban government - News-Update. In: Der Spiegel. Retrieved August 15, 2021 .
- ^ Accident report B-727-200 YA-FAZ , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on February 24, 2019.
- ^ Accident report B-737-200 EX-037 , Aviation Safety Network (English), accessed on April 16, 2020.
- ↑ Chaos after the Taliban came to power In: dw.com , August 16, 2021
- ↑ [1] , Twitter, accessed on August 16, 2021.
- ^ Taliban takeover: Dramatic scenes at the airport in Kabul. August 16, 2021, accessed August 16, 2021 .