IRANIAN PRESIDENT URGES TO LAUNCH AN IMMEDIATE INVESTIGATION INTO THE CRASH

/PanARMENIAN.Net/
15.07.2009 18:17 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has expressed
his regret over the plane crash. Ahmadinejad’s office said in a
statement that "the passenger plane crash and the death of many of
our dear citizens have caused a lot of grief and sorrow."

According to the report, the Iranian president instructed his
transportation minister to launch an immediate investigation into the
crash and report to him and to the Iranian people about its findings.

The plane was traveling from Tehran to Yerevan in Armenia when it
came down at 11:33 am (0703 GMT) near the city of Qazvin, the official
IRNA news agency said.

The plane crashed 16 minutes after take-off from the capital’s Imam
Khomeini International airport, it said.