Iranian Plane Crashes, All 168 on Board Believed Dead

Jul 15th, 2009 - VOA News

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Iranian state media say a passenger plane has crashed in northwestern Iran, killing all 168 people on board.

State television said Wednesday the Iranian airliner was heading to the Armenian capital of Yerevan when it went down near the northern Iranian city of Qazvin. Media reports say the plane crashed 16 minutes after taking off from Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport.

Video footage shows a field littered with small pieces of smoking wreckage from the Caspian Airlines plane.

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