168 feared killed in Iran plane crash
A plane bound for Armenia from Iran crashed on Wednesday morning 75 miles northwest of Tehran, killing all 168 people aboard, Iranian state media reported. The passenger plane, a Russian-made Tupolev 154, went down near Qazvin at 11.30 am after leaving Tehran on a flight to Yerevan, the Armenian capital, said Qazvin police chief Hussein Behzadpour to Iran’s Press TV.
The aircraft, operated by Caspian Airlines, was carrying 153 passengers and 15 crew members, state television reported. TV footages showed smoking ruins, with body parts and bits of the plane’s shattered fuselage scattered on the field at the site of crash. The crash gouged a trench more than 10 feet deep in the field, near the village of Jannatabad, state news agencies said.
Deputy Governor of Qazvin province Sirous Saberi told Iran’s Mehr news agency that the plane had experienced a technical problem and was trying to make an emergency landing. A witness told the semi-official ISNA news agency that the plane’s tail was on fire before it landed. Another witness said the plane had exploded on impact.
Six Armenian citizens and two Georgian citizens were on the flight, the rest were Iranians, AP said, citing the deputy chairman of Armenia’s civil aviation authority in Yerevan.
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