Los Angeles International Airport

Los Angeles International Airport or LAX is one of the largest airports in the country. Along with Ontario Airport, it is one of the major commercial air traffic hubs around Los Angeles.

Operation Hell Gate
During Operation Hell Gate, a group of hired thugs attempted to shoot down a plane at LAX using an advanced Long Tooth Missile Launcher. They were stopped by an assault team led by Chet Blackburn and including Jack Bauer and Tony Almeida. However, they were successful in testing the weapon, which managed to accurately find a single plane in the crowded air field.

The CTU team lost one member, Gina Costigan, but recovered a memory stick and one of the perpetrators, Dante Arete, both of which proved critical to the investigation.