IRANIAN PLANE CRASHES EN ROUTE TO ARMENIA
AME Info
July 15 2009
Qatar
Iran: Wednesday, July 15 – 2009 at 14:12 An Iranian aircraft has
crashed in the country’s northwestern province of Qazvin on a flight to
Armenia, state television has reported. All 168 aboard were believed
to be dead. The Russian-made Tupolev plane operated by Iran’s Caspian
Airlines came down 16 minutes after takeoff from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini
International Airport, Reza Jafarzadeh, a spokesman for the country’s
aviation agency, told Iran’s state-run Mehr news agency.
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