Iran plane crash : 168 killed

Iran Plane Crash At Least 168 killed

Breaking news is that a Plane Crash in Iran today!! At least 168 people have killed in this incident. It was big disaster!! The Caspian Airlines plane crashed near the city of Qazvin, the state television says. According to a local official in Qazvin, the plane was totally destroyed and the wreckage was in flames.

State TV showed a large chunk of wing but much of the ruins seen to be in little pieces, and emergency workers and observer picked around the shredded metal for bodies. TV reported that 16 minutes after taking off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport, it crashed at about 11.30. A fire brigade official told Iranian state television that it's been a major disaster with pieces of aircraft spread over an area of 200 square meters.

The Caspian Airlines aircraft was traveling from Tehran to Yerevan in Armenia when it came down at 11:33 a.m. (0703 GMT) near the city of Qazvin. The plane had qualified technical problems and had tried to do an emergency landing, the semi-official Fars News Agency quoted a senior local administrator, Sirous Saberi is said this information. He also added that unluckily the plane caught fire in the air and it crashed ... different small parts of this plane can be seen on the ground.

All evidence shows that this passenger plane has been completely smashed, Qazvin police commander Massoud Jafari told IRNA. Firefighters were trying to extinguish the fire said by a fire brigade official, Hossein Behzadpour.

Civil aviation spokesman Reza Jafarzadeh said that they can not confirm anything more before they receive additional information from the team that they dispatched at the crash site. You can see Here the wreckage and bodies from Iran plane crash.

Source: Yahoo! News