Jinnah International Airport facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Jinnah International Airport Quaid-e-Azam International Airport Karachi International Airport
IATA: KHI ICAO: OPKC
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	Pakistan Civil Aviation Authority
Serves	Karachi, Sindh
Elevation AMSL	100 ft / 30 m
Coordinates	24°54′24″N, 067°09′39″E
Website	www.karachiairport.com.pk
Runway
Runway Length Surface m ft 07R/25L 3,400 11,155 Concrete 07L/25R 3,200 10,500 Concrete

Jinnah International Airport previously Quaid-e-Azam International Airport (IATA: KHI, ICAO: OPKC) is Pakistan's largest international and domestic airport. It is located in Karachi, in Sindh, and is also commonly known as the Jinnah Terminal.

Events

• On 7 April 1929, Karachi airport became the first airport in British India to be used for a commercial flight, when an aircraft landed with mail going to Bombay.
• On 19 August 1980, Saudia Flight 163 flew from Karachi to Riyadh for its first leg. When the aircraft started its second leg to Jeddah, a fire ignited. The plane landed and everyone died.
• A Pan Am Boeing 747 named the Clipper Empress of the Seas, called Pan Am Flight 73, was hijacked on 5 September 1986. Twenty people were killed when the airplane was hijacked on the ground in Karachi, Pakistan.
• 22 May 2020, Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303

Images for kids

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  Tata Airlines, started as an air mail service from Karachi to Mumbai

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  Karachi Port Trust Airport in 1943 during World War II with two Liberators and four Dakotas

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  Srilankan Airlines Airbus A330 at Jinnah International Airport Karachi

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  Interior of the terminal

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  Aerial view of Jinnah International Airport taken in 2010

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  Turkish airlines is the oldest remaining and only European airline at Karachi

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  PIA Maintenance facility, Isphahani Hangar

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  KLM of Europe was the second world airline to fly to Karachi in the airport's 100 year history.

See also

In Spanish: Aeropuerto Internacional Jinnah para niños