- Source: Hyderabad Airport (Sindh)
The Hyderabad Airport (IATA: HDD, ICAO: OPKD) is a domestic airport in Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan. It is very close to the Pakistan Army's Sindh Regimental Centre and the HDA Kohsar Housing Society. The airport has been closed to commercial traffic as of 2013.
History
Hyderabad Airport was closed to commercial traffic in 1998. It reopened on 19 August 2008 with Pakistan International Airlines announcing flights twice weekly to Islamabad and Lahore via Nawabshah.
However, the airport was closed again to commercial traffic in 2013 due to financial losses and other reasons
Events
On 25 May 1998, PIA Flight 544 was a flight that was hijacked in Turbat. The final stand off between the hijackers and armed forces took place at Hyderabad Airport, resulting in the eventual capture of two of the three hijackers. The third was killed.
See also
List of airports in Pakistan
Airlines of Pakistan
Transport in Pakistan
Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority
References
External links
Airport information for OPKD at Great Circle Mapper. Source: DAFIF (effective October 2006).
Accident history for HDD at Aviation Safety Network
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Bandar Udara Hyderabad (Pakistan)
- Bandar Udara Nawabshah
- Bandar Udara Internasional Jinnah
- Hyderabad Airport (Sindh)
- Hyderabad, Pakistan
- Hyderabad District, Sindh
- Sindh Agriculture University
- Pakistan International Airlines Flight 544
- HDD
- Hyderabad Airport (disambiguation)
- Sindh Rangers
- Civil Aviation Training Institute
- Hyderabad Municipal Corporation
