Fath Air Base

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Fath Air Base
Summary
Operator Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force
Serves Karaj
Elevation  AMSL 3,999 ft / 1,219 m
Coordinates 35°43′02″N50°56′07″E / 35.71722°N 50.93528°E / 35.71722; 50.93528
Runways
Direction LengthSurface
ftm
13/313,281981Asphalt

Fath Air Base( ICAO : OIIF) is a military airfield near Karaj, Alborz Province, Iran.

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Location

Fath Air Base is located near Karaj, Alborz Province, Iran. The airport is at an elevation of 3,999 feet (1,219 m) and has an asphalt runway, 3,218 feet (981 m) long, designated 13/31,. [1] [2] [3] It is mainly used as a base for helicopters of the Helicopter Training Squadron, Attack Helicopter Squadron and Training & Recce Helicopter Squadron of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force. [4]

Accidents and incidents

On 14 January 2019, a Boeing 707 of Saha Airlines overran the runway on landing, killing fifteen of the sixteen people on board. [5] It was reported that the aircraft should have landed at Payam International Airport but landed at Fath in error. [6] Payam is located 10.9 kilometres (5.9 nmi) northwest of Fath Air Base.

A crash was avoided in a similar incident on 16 November 2018, when a Taban Airlines MD-88 carrying 155 people twice attempted to land on this runway, mistaking it for a longer 3,659-metre (12,005 ft) runway at Payam International Airport, which is nearly inline but 11 km away. The first approach was aborted at 11:26 hours and the aircraft circled for another attempt. The second approach was aborted at 11:29 and the aircraft continued for a safe landing at Payam Airport at 11:31. AAID Iran reported that the flight reached an altitude of 1 m above ground level during one of the approaches. [7] The MD-88 requires a minimum of approximately 1,500 m of runway to land safely, 519 m more than the 981 m runway at Fath Air Base. [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "OIIF Karaj/Fath Airport". Skyvector. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  2. ↑ "Iran - IRGCAF". Scramble. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  3. ↑ "Fath (Iran)" (in French). Aviations Militaires. 27 February 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  4. ↑ "ranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Aerospace Force". XairForces. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  5. ↑ "Boeing 707 cargo plane crashes near Tehran, claims 16 lives". Tehran Times. 14 January 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  6. ↑ Livingstone, Tom (14 January 2019). "Flight engineer survives Iran plane crash". Channel Nine News. Retrieved 16 January 2019.
  7. ↑ Ranter, Harro. "Serious incident McDonnell Douglas MD-88 EP-TBC, 16 Nov 2018". aviation-safety.net. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
  8. ↑ "McDonnell Douglas MD-88 – SKYbrary Aviation Safety". www.skybrary.aero. Retrieved 2019-01-18.
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