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QAZVIN'S POLICE COMMANDER: ALL PASSENGERS ON BOARD OF JET HEADING FROM TEHRAN TO YEREVAN HAVE BEEN KILLED
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
15.07.2009 16:34 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ An Iranian plane carrying 168 passengers crashed
before midday in the suburbs of the city of Qazvin, some 75 miles
northwest of Tehran, on route to the Armenian capital, Yerevan, police
sources said. "The plane has crashed in Farsian Eghbalieh village
near Qazvin. All the 168 passengers on board have been killed,"
Qazvin's Police Commander Colonel Masoud Jafari Nassab told FNA.
He reiterated that the relief and rescue squad deployed to the scene
immediately. The Caspian Airlines Russian made Tupolev jet was heading
from Tehran to the Armenian capital Yerevan when it crashed at 11:33
am local time (0803GMT), 16 minutes after take-off from Tehran's Imam
Khomeini International Airport, Fars Iranian Agency reported.
Reports said all the passengers and crews on board have burnt to ashes.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
15.07.2009 16:34 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ An Iranian plane carrying 168 passengers crashed
before midday in the suburbs of the city of Qazvin, some 75 miles
northwest of Tehran, on route to the Armenian capital, Yerevan, police
sources said. "The plane has crashed in Farsian Eghbalieh village
near Qazvin. All the 168 passengers on board have been killed,"
Qazvin's Police Commander Colonel Masoud Jafari Nassab told FNA.
He reiterated that the relief and rescue squad deployed to the scene
immediately. The Caspian Airlines Russian made Tupolev jet was heading
from Tehran to the Armenian capital Yerevan when it crashed at 11:33
am local time (0803GMT), 16 minutes after take-off from Tehran's Imam
Khomeini International Airport, Fars Iranian Agency reported.
Reports said all the passengers and crews on board have burnt to ashes.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress