Sunday, January 9, 2011

Iranian plane crashes to the ground with 156 passengers on board

TEHRAN - New air disaster in Iran. A company of Iran Air flight with 156 passengers on board has crashed at 19.45 local time (17.15 hours Italian) near the city of Urumiyeh in the northwest of the country. The state television reported quoting an official of the West Azerbaijan province. In the region a raging storm of rain and thunderstorms.

According to the Iranian authorities, at least fifty passengers were pulled alive from the wreckage of the aircraft. In July 2009, in the same area, another plane, a Tupolev's Caspian Airlines, crashed to the ground for a fire engine. On board were 168 people: all were killed on impact with the agricultural land on which the aircraft crashed.

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