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38 (including 1 hijacker) EgyptAir Flight 648 was a regularly scheduled international flight between Athens Ellinikon International Airport ( Greece) and Cairo International Airport ( Egypt ). On 23 November 1985, a Boeing 737-200 [2] airliner, registered SU-AYH, servicing the flight was hijacked by the terrorist organization Abu Nidal.
This is a list of airports in Greece, grouped by type and sorted by location. Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula. It has land borders with Albania, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east.
Athens International Airport. / 37.93639°N 23.94722°E / 37.93639; 23.94722. Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos ( IATA: ATH, ICAO: LGAV ), commonly initialised as AIA, is the largest international airport in Greece, serving the city of Athens and region of Attica. It began operation on 28 March 2001 (in time for the ...
1973 Athens Hellinikon International Airport attack. / 37.899; 23.727. The 1973 Hellinikon International Airport attack was an attack at the Hellinikon International Airport at Athens, Greece. The two attackers were members of the Palestinian militant organization Black September. The militants used sub-machine guns and grenades against the ...
This is a list of Greece 's busiest airports per year by passenger traffic. Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org. Annual passenger traffic at ATH HEW HER SKG RHO CFU CHQ KGS JTR ZTH airports. See Wikidata query.
146. TWA Flight 847 was a regularly scheduled Trans World Airlines flight from Cairo to San Diego with en route stops in Athens, Rome, Boston, and Los Angeles. [1] On the morning of June 14, 1985, Flight 847 was hijacked soon after take off from Athens. [2] [3] The hijackers demanded the release of 700 Shia Muslims from Israeli custody and took ...
The airport is closed to all aviation. Ellinikon International Airport ( IATA: ATH, ICAO: LGAT ), sometimes spelled Hellinikon, was an international airport that served Athens, Greece, for 63 years. Following its closure on 28 March 2001, it was replaced in service by the new Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos.
August 14, 2005: After fears that it could crash in Athens' center, Helios Airways Flight 522 crashes in Grammatiko, killing all 121 people on board. This is the deadliest aviation accident in the history of Greece. May 23, 2006: A Greek and a Turkish F-16 collide in mid air off the island of Karpathos and crash in the Aegean. The Greek pilot ...