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Russian pilot manages to land burning plane in Iran – no victims
Published: 24 January, 2010, 13:21
Edited: 01 February, 2010, 10:30
Iran, Mashhad: Iranian firefighters inspect damages after extinguishing the fire which swept over an Iranian passenger plane while landing at the airport in the city of Mashhad, 900 kms northeast of the capital Tehran, on January 24, 2010. ( AFP Photo / Mehdi Ghorbani)
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A Soviet-made TU-154 passenger plane has caught fire while landing in the airport of Iranian city of Mashhad at 07:20 local time (03:50 GMT).
As Iran's civil aviation has informed, all 157 passengers and 13 crew members, including Russian chief pilot P.V. Prikhodko, survived the crash, though at least 46 people are reported injured. All the injured have been taken to the hospital of Mashhad.
The aircraft was seriously damaged while landing with its tail on fire: the undercarriage was destroyed, as well as one of the wings.
On Saturday the plane took off from Abadan airport in southwestern Iran, but due to bad weather conditions in Mashhad had to make a stop in Isfahan in central Iran.
Iranian air company Taban Air rented the vehicle from Russian company Kogalymavia (KOLAVIA).
After the sanctions imposed on Iran by the US after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Iranian air carriers have had constant problems with maintenance and spare parts. About a dozen Soviet-made Tupolev planes currently in service in Iran are considerably worn out.
Only half a year ago another TU-154 of Iranian Caspian Airlines crashed in northwest Iran, near the city of Qazvin, killing all 168 people onboard (153 passengers and 15 crew members).
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January 24, 2010, 12:16, Count Cash wrote > Professional job, he got it in the blocks, well done! > But how about helping Iran out with some Superjets and AN 148s, it seems good business to me. How about helping the Iranian regime with building Nuclear power plants and the technology to make nuclear bombs....Oh, thats right, you have already done that. Why don't you give these planes the much needed repair parts after all they are Tupolev's? The embargo is only for "Western" made parts!