Jinnah International Airport

Jinnah International Airport
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
Runways

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.^[1]
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

Jinnah International Airport Media

Karachi Airport in 1943 showing the air terminal and some of the apron.
A reconstruction of what Karachi airport looked like in 1958.
A reconstruction of what Karachi International Airport looked like in 1992.
KLM were the first world airline to serve Karachi, in 1929.
Interior of the terminal of the Jinnah Int. Airport in Karachi, Pakistan
Aerial view of Jinnah International Airport, 2010
A Pakistan International Airlines helicopter parked in front of the Karachi airport terminal 1 building in the 1960s, this photo is mistakenly claimed to have been taken in Dacca International Airport