PAF Base Kohat

Kohat Airbase
IATA: OHT – ICAO: OPKT
Summary
Airport type		Military
Operator		Pakistan Air Force
Location		Kohat
Elevation AMSL		1,650 ft / 503 m
Coordinates		33°34′14″N 71°26′22″E / 33.57056°N 71.43944°E / 33.57056; 71.43944Coordinates: 33°34′14″N 71°26′22″E / 33.57056°N 71.43944°E / 33.57056; 71.43944
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
14/32	7,717	2,352	Asphalt

Kohat Airbase (IATA: OHT, ICAO: OPKT) is an Air Force base and an Air Force facility that is located in Kohat, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.

On February 20, 2003, Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir and 16 others were killed when their Fokker F27 crashed into the hills near the airbase. The aircraft was inbound to Kohat from Chaklala Airbase. Included in the dead were the wife of Mushaf Ali Mir and two Air Vice Marshals.^[1]

On August 6, 2007, two personnel of the Pakistan Air Force and a child accompanying them were injured when a bomb exploded near their vehicle on the Kohat Road near the PAF Airbase.^[2]

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↑ News report on the death of Mushaf Ali Mir TajaNews
↑ Two PAF men, child injured in bomb blast Dawn Newspaper

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