| Date: | Tuesday 28 August 1984 |
| Time: | |
| Type: |  Airbus A300B2-203 |
| Owner/operator: | Iran Air |
| Registration: | EP-IBS |
| MSN: | 080 |
| Year of manufacture: | 1980 |
| Engine model: | General Electric CF6-50C2 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 206 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | None |
| Category: | Unlawful Interference |
| Location: | Baghdad-Saddam International Airport (SDA) -
 Iraq
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Passenger - Scheduled |
| Departure airport: | Shiraz Airport (SYZ/OISS) |
| Tehran-Mehrabad Airport (THR/OIII) |
Two hijackers, a young man and a woman claiming to have explosives, diverted the aircraft to Baghdad, Iraq. The hijackers' original destination was Kuwait, but airport authorities denied the aircraft permission to land. Upon landing in Baghdad, the hijackers requested political asylum.
The aircraft was impounded and returned to Iran Air following the Gulf War in September 1990.
Sources:
Nieuwsblad van het Noorden 28-08-1984
History of this aircraft
Other occurrences involving this aircraft
| 14 January 2018 | EP-IBS | Iran Air | 0 | near Mashhad-Shahid Hashemi Nejad Airport (MHD/OIMM) |  |
unk |
| Engine failure | ||||||
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