Fath Air Base (ICAO: OIIF) is a military airfield near Karaj, Alborz Province, Iran.
Fath Air Base is located near Karaj, Alborz Province, Iran.
[4] On 14 January 2019, a Boeing 707 of Saha Airlines overran the runway on landing, killing fifteen of the sixteen people on board.
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.
AAID Iran reported that the flight reached an altitude of 1 m above ground level during one of the approaches.