Iranian passenger plane crashes near Qazvin
By newsadmin at 15 July, 2009, 3:03 am
An Iranian passenger plane has crashed in northwest of Iran, near the city of Qazvin with all on board presumed dead.
Qazvin Police Chief Hossein Behzadpour said all 150 passengers are believed to have been killed in the crash.
The Tupolev plane went down near Jannat-abad village near Qazvin at 11:33 am local time on Wednesday after it took off from the Iranian capital Tehran to fly to Yerevan in Armenia.
“The 7908 Caspian flight crashed 16 minutes after its takeoff from the International Imam Khomeini Airport (IKIA),” said Iran’s Aviation Organization spokesman, Reza Jafarzadeh.
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