Reuters - A Ukrainian airliner that crashed shortly after take-off from Tehran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board, was on fire immediately prior to the incident, according to an initial report by investigators. The report, by Irans civil aviation organisation, cited witnesses on the ground and in a passing aircraft flying at high altitude ...

The Guardian | Jasper Jolly: Aircraft launched in 1994 can carry 189 passengers and has had some safety issues The Boeing 737-800 model used by Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) that crashed in Tehran on Wednesday is the most popular aircraft in the sky, used by major airlines from Ryanair to American Airlines. Boeings short-haul workhorse ...

ISNA | Rouhollah Vahdati & Borna Ghasemi: A Boeing 737 plane carrying 176 passengers and crew, mostly Iranians, crashed shortly after takeoff from Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran early Wednesday, leaving no survivors. Technical difficulties were cited as the cause of the crash.      ...

IRNA - Iran Civil Aviation Organization said on Wednesday that 147 passengers on board of the crashed Boeing 737 plane were Iranians and 32 passengers were foreigners. All 179 passengers died when a Ukrainian plane Boeing 737 crashed in southern Tehran Wednesday morning after its engine caught fire. All the 167 passengers and nine crew members ...

MNA - A Boeing 737 belonging to Ukraine International Airlines has crashed due to technical problems after take-off from Iran's Imam Khomeini airport with 170 passengers and crew on board. The airplane took off from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport and headed to Ukrainian capital city Kyiv. Following the incident, all flights from and ...

Tasnim A charter plane carrying 143 people and traveling from Cuba to north Florida ended up in a river at the end of a runway Friday night, though no critical injuries or deaths were reported, officials said. A Boeing 737 arriving at Naval Air Station Jacksonville from Naval Station Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, with 136 passengers and seven aircrew slid ...

MNA A Boeing 707 cargo plane operated by Kyrgyzstan airlines crashed minutes ago while landing in Fath Airport, located in Karaj, Alborz province, 40 kilometers west of the capital Tehran. Sources familiar with the initial crash report said the plane had taken off from Bishkek heading to Karajs Payam International Airport, however, mistakenly tried ...

Mizan |Hassan Shirvani: A Boeing 707 cargo plane outbound from Kyrgyzstan crashed Mon. morning while making a wrong landing at Fath Airport in Alborz province, near Tehran. The plane was carrying at least 10 crew.�  

IRNA The speaker of Majlis (the Iranian Parliament) has expressed condolences on Thursday to Indonesia over the plane crash. 'I sympathize with you and the families of the deceased passengers of the plane, and pray to God for his forgiveness for the ones that lost their lives in the crash,' wrote Ali Larijani in his message to Speaker of the People's ...

Press TV - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has extended his condolences to his Indonesian counterpart Joko Widodo over a passenger plane crash with 189 people on board. In his message to the Indonesian president on Monday, Rouhani said he was deeply saddened by the tragic incident of the plane crash, which led to the death of the country's nationals,...

MNA Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi has expressed sympathy over a plane crash in Indonesia, which lead to the death of dozens of people. In a Monday statement, Ghasemi also offered condolences to the Indonesian nation and government and the bereaved families of the victims. An Indonesian passenger plane carrying 189 people,...

CBS News - A Lion Air flight with 189 people on board crashed into the sea moments after taking off from Indonesia's capital early Monday. The airliner said it had lost contact with Flight JT-610 and Indonesia's search and rescue agency posted images of debris it has found from the Boeing 737 Max 8 plane that went down in the waters off West Java. ...

AP Irans official IRNA news agency is reporting that an Iranian passenger plane has skidded off the runway after its landing gear jammed during a domestic flight. The Friday report said all 104 passengers and crew of the Fokker-100 plane were safely taken to the airport terminal in the northeastern city of Mashhad, some 900 kilometers (560 miles) ...

IRNA - Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi expressed condolences on Turkish cargo plane crash on Monday in Kyrgyzstan which left scores of Kyrgyz people dead and wounded. Qasemi voiced deep grief over the sad occasion, condoling Kyrgyz government and people; he sympathized with the bereaved families of the victims of this tragic accident. The ...

NDTV- A cargo plane crashed near Kyrgyzstan's main airport Monday, leaving 32 people dead including four pilots as it hit a populated area after attempting to land in thick fog, authorities said. The majority of the dead were from the village of Dacha-Suu where the plane -- a Turkish Airlines flight from Hong Kong to Istanbul via Kyrgyzstan's capital ...

Sputnik- An Il-18 plane has crashed in Russia's Sakha Republic (Yakutia) on Monday. "As a result ofthe accident, all passengers and crew members are alive. Sixteen individuals sustained severe injuries. Search-and-rescue helicopters have evacuated 23 people toregional health centers ofTiksi [settlement]," the Russian Defense Ministry said. The ...

A United Arab Emiratespassenger plane hascrashed during landing in the southern Russia, killing all 62passengers and crew memberson board. ?Flydubai flight FZ981, en route from Dubai to the southern Russian city of Rostov-on-Don, is reported to have crashed due to poor visibility nearthe runway at03:50 local time (0050 GMT) onSaturday. "A Boeing ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) The final result of investigations into the main causes of the fatal crash of Iran-140 airplane near Tehran 18 months ago showed that technical fault caused the crash, Irans Civil Aviation Organization (CAO) announced. More than 18 months after Antonov-140 plane crash and after thousands of man hours of work by a team of experts ...

Tehran, July 1, IRNA Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Marzieh Afkham on Wednesday regretted the deadly crash of an Indonesian C-130 aircraft and sympathized with the Indonesian government and nation. Afkham condoled with the bereaved families of the victims and prayed for souls of those who lost life in the air disaster. An Indonesian military plane ...

Speaking to reporters, he said that Iranian police plane crash on Saturday was an air disaster. An Iranian police plane crashed late on Saturday killing four senior officers. All seven officers on board were martyred when the twin-engine turboprop commander aircraft crashed in the mountains outside Sistan-Baluchestan's capital of Zahedan. Two ...