Air crash at Tehran’s Mehrabad airport
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An Iran-140 Sepahan Air passenger plane bound for Tabas in northeast Iran with 48 passengers and crew on board crashed on a road near Tehran’s Mehrabad airport, killing at least 38 people, as reported by Iranian state media.
Initial reports said that all passengers and crew on board had been killed, but state media later reported that some passengers had been injured and transferred to hospital. Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) said that eight or nine had survived and quoted a doctor as saying that one of the injured had regained consciousness.
The pilot detected technical issues four minutes after takeoff and tried to return to the airport, state television said, but the twin-engine turboprop crashed on a road. One eyewitness said the plane crashed into a wall. The plane’s black box has yet to be found, said the deputy minister of Roads and Urban Development said.
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