Incidents and Accidents
- On January 30, 2006, the nose gear of a Cargolux Boeing 747-400F collapsed while parked on the cargo apron.
- On May 13, 2006, A China Eastern Airbus A340-600 (Tail number B6055), flight 5042 from Seoul to Shanghai suffered tire bursts on all of its main landing gears. None of the 232 passengers were hurt.
- On November 19, 2006, An Air Canada Boeing 767-300 flight 38 encountered severe turbulence en route to Vancouver from Shanghai. Four cabin members were hurt. The plane safely landed in Tokyo's Narita International Airport. This incident occurred just after a domestic Japan Airlines Boeing 777 flight 1348 experienced turbulence which landed safely in Tokyo's Haneda Airport.
- On the morning of November 28, 2009, An Avient McDonnell Douglas MD-11F cargo plane registered to Zimbabwe (Reg: Z-BAV) departing for Kyrgyzstan crashed into a warehouse near the runway of the airport due to a tailstrike that caught fire during takeoff and broke into several pieces with seven people on board. Three people died and four were injured.
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