Peshawar International Airport
| Peshawar International Airport | |
|---|---|
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| Characteristics | |
| ICAO code | OPPS |
| IATA code | PEW |
| Coordinates | |
| Height above MSL | 353 m (1158 ft ) |
| Basic data | |
| Passengers | 1,350,121 (2015/16) |
| Air freight | 9.034 t (2015/16) |
| Flight movements |
10,079 (2015/16) |
| Start-and runway | |
| 17/35 | 2743 m × 46 m asphalt |
The airport Peshawar ( English Peshawar International Airport ) is an international airport of Peshawar in Pakistan .
Location and directions
The airport is about three kilometers southwest of the city center. It is about 180 km from Islamabad . The airport can be reached by car within 10 minutes from the city center, including via the N5 road. The runway is crossed by a railway line.
military
Between 1981 and 1991, the airport was used as a starting point for cargo flights by the Bundeswehr and the Federal Intelligence Service in the course of Operation Sommerregen to Germany. These contained captured ultra-modern Soviet military equipment.
Incidents
According to ASN, there are no known accidents near the airport. In 1965, 22 people were killed in a Douglas C-47A crash en route to Chitral Airport . Two other incidents, involving aircraft taking off from Peshawar, occurred in 2001 and 2004, but there were no fatalities.
On June 24, 2014, Pakistan International Airlines Flight 756 was shot at while landing. One passenger was killed and three flight attendants were injured. The Airbus A310 aircraft that took off from Riyadh Airport was hit by six bullets, at least one of which hit an engine.
Web links
- Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- Airport data. In: flightstats.com. Retrieved August 20, 2010 .
- Airport data on World Aero Data ( 2006 )
- Airport. In: AirNav. Retrieved August 20, 2010 .
- Airport data. In: The Airport Guide. Retrieved August 20, 2010 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ↑ Airport data in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- ↑ Aircraft accident data and report in the Aviation Safety Network (English)
- ↑ Jibran Ahmad: Gunmen fire on plane at Pakistan's Peshawar airport , Reuters , June 24, 2014
- ↑ Stefan Eiselin: Shots at Airbus kill passenger , Aerotelegraph , June 24, 2014