Iran airliner crashes, all 150 on board feare
Iran airliner crashes, all 150 on board feared dead
AP 15 July 2009, 02:43pm IST
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TEHRAN: A passenger plane carrying 150 people crashed on Wednesday in northwest Iran, and all on board were feared dead, state media reported.
The Caspian Airlines jet was heading from Tehran to the Armenian capital Yerevan when it crashed near the village of Jannatabad outside the city of Qazvin, around 75 miles northwest of Tehran, state television said.
The Qazvin emergency services director Hossein Bahzadpour told the IRNA news agency that the plane was completely destroyed and shattered to pieces, and the wreckage was in flames. "It his highly likely that all the passengers on the flight were killed," Bahzadpour said. He did not give a number, but state TV said 150 were on the flight.
Caspian Airlines is a Russian-Iranian joint venture founded in 1993.
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let's just pray for the passenger's soul.
i hope the Qatar Airways has secured planes now, coz i will be on a flight home next week...
So so sad.. :(
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Aaaak, not another one. Aviation Safety (compliance and enforcement) needs to be reviewed-BIG TIME!
Not a good year for Airline Travel..
First the Swine flew and now the planes crashing.. 2009 not a good year..:(
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HE WHO DARES WINS
so sad :((( too many of them offlate
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