A Tupolev passenger aircraft crashed in northwestern Iran today and 168 people on board were killed, Iranian media reported.
The Caspian Airlines aircraft was carrying 153 passengers and 15 crew, Reza Jafarzadeh, a spokesman for Iran’s aviation organisation, told state television.
Source: Reuters
The Caspian Airlines aircraft was carrying 153 passengers and 15 crew, Reza Jafarzadeh, a spokesman for Iran’s aviation organisation, told state television.
- State television showed footage of debris from the plane and some body parts.
- The plane was travelling from Tehran to Yerevan in Armenia when it came down at 11.33am (3.03pm, Malaysian time) near the city of Qazvin, the official IRNA news agency said.
- The plane crashed 16 minutes after take-off from the capital’s Imam Khomeini International airport, it said.
- The semi-official Fars News Agency quoted a senior provincial official, Sirous Saberi, as saying the plane had experienced technical problems and had tried to do an emergency landing.
- A fire brigade official, Hossein Behzadpour, said firefighters were trying to extinguish the fire.
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