<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">About Broome International Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">Broome International Airport (BIA) is one of Australia's leading regional airports and acts as the gateway to Broome and The Kimberley in the north west of Australia. The airport serves a mixture of scheduled passenger services, extensive general aviation and charter services, and operates the southern hemisphere's largest heliport.</p>
<p class="blog-para">BIA handles in excess of 400,000 passengers with a total of approximately 30,000 aircraft movements per year.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The airport is regional service base for a number of significant Kimberley industries including Tourism, Mining, Offshore Oil and Gas, Agricultural, Aquaculture and Pearling. There are significant opportunities for BIA to develop new air routes and help link Australia to Asian markets as well as international destinations due to its geographical location in north western Australia.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">History</h2>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>World War II</strong></p>
<p class="blog-para">The airport field was attacked on the morning of 3 March 1942, during World War II. The attack on Broome resulted in at least 88 deaths. The airport field was being used by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and allies, the Japanese raid destroyed at least 22 aircraft, parts of which are still on display to this day at Broome Historical Museum.</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Post&ndash;war</strong></p>
<p class="blog-para">The airport runway was extended in around 2004&ndash;2006. It also has had several upgrades to helicopter infrastructure. It is home to state-of-the-art firefighting equipment.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The airport entry road, Macpherson Road, is named after the man who helped pioneer the town. The road was purpose built for the cable that ran from 200 meters east of vine walking trail at a junction box now enclosed in private property to Broome Court House, formerly Cable House.</p>
<p class="blog-para">From 18 November 2010 Broome International became a Class D non-radar controlled aerodrome which means that aircraft are separated by air traffic controllers based on estimates provided by pilots and reporting their distances and altitudes from the airfield.</p>
<p class="blog-para">The Kimberly Qantas lounge was upgraded in 2014&ndash;2015 when the terminal had landscaping and maintenance work carried out.</p>
<p class="blog-para">Silk Air operated four charter flights to Broome from Singapore; the first flight began on 22 May 2018 and the last flight operated on 2 June 2018. This was repeated in 2019.</p>
<p class="blog-para">A Qantas A330 landed in Broome on 14 May 2019 after an electronics failure on QF44 DPS-SYD, making it the largest aircraft to ever land there.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Accidents and incidents</h2>
<p class="blog-para">On 21 January 1974, Douglas C-47A PK-GDC of the Burmah Oil Co was damaged beyond economic repair in an accident.</p>
<p class="blog-para">On 11 July 2012, a Piper PA-34 Seneca of Golden Eagle Airlines crashed into sand dunes near the runway threshold. The aircraft, registration VH-LCK was operating a scheduled cargo flight to Port Hedland in good weather conditions at night. The pilot who was the sole occupant was killed in the accident. Investigations by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau into the cause of the accident found that the collision was due to a likely loss of engine power.</p>
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