RESCUERS ARE TRYING TO GET BURNT BODIES OF PEOPLE ON BOARD OUT OF PLANE
/PanARMENIAN.Net/
15.07.2009 17:57 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ The Caspian Airlines Tupolev with 153 passengers
and 15 crews on board crashed near Iran’s Qazvin province on Wednesday
before noon.
The plane was heading from Tehran to Capital of Armenia, Yerevan,
Wednesday morning when it crashed near two villages in a nonresidential
area 16 minutes after it took off from Imam Khomeini international
airport near Qom, said spokesman for Iran’s Civil Aviation
Organization, Reza Jafarzadeh.
He also said yet there is no precise information about the passengers
of the plane.
A delegation has been sent to the scene soon after the event was
reported but the reason for the crash and how it happened is not
known yet, he added.
The plane has been flying over a district near Qazvin in order to
find a farm to land when it hit the ground.
A whole with 5 to 6 meters depth has been created by the plane
crash. The fire has been put off and the rescuers are trying to get
the burnt bodies of the people on board out of the plane.
All members, head coach and coach of Iran’s national cadet judo
team have died in the accident. The team was heading Armenia
to attend a preparation camp, ISNA Iranian Agency reported