17 KILLED WHEN PLANE CRASHED IN IRAN
Officials look at the wreckage of a passenger airplane in Mashhad in this July 24, 2009
Seventeen people were killed when a passenger aircraft caught fire while landing at the airport of Mashhad in northeastern Iran on Friday, the state news agency IRNA reported.
Source:The Star Online
- An airport official said there were 153 people on board the aircraft, which had flown to Mashhad from Tehran, and that 23 of them had been injured, according to the state broadcaster IRIB's website.
- "Seventeen people were killed after a passenger plane caught fire at an airport in Mashhad," IRNA said, adding that the remaining passengers had been evacuated.
- The plane, operated by Aria Tour, left the runway as it was landing and ran into a wall, state television said, putting the death toll at 16. The crash occurred at 6:20 p.m. (1350 GMT), media reports said.
- Earlier this month an Iranian plane flying to Armenia crashed in northwestern Iran, killing all 168 people aboard.
PLANE CRASH IN IRAN, 168 ON BOARD FEARED KILLED
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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