Post Chronicle
July 19 2009
Victims Of Iranian Air Disaster Sent Home
by Staff
The bodies of 152 people killed in the crash of an Iranian airliner
have been returned to their families, an Iranian state broadcaster
reported Sunday.
In all, 168 people died in Wednesday’s crash of the Russian-made
Tupolev Tu-154 plane north of Tehran.
The bodies of 152 aboard the plane have been given to their families,
while the bodies of five Armenian passengers have been given to their
country’s officials, authorities said. The whereabouts of the rest of
the passengers and crew were unknown.
Eight Russian experts have joined Iranian investigators in searching
for clues to the crash of Caspian Airlines Flight 7908, lead
investigator Ahmad Majidi told the government-run Islamic Republic of
Iran Broadcasting, IRIB.
Russian and Iranian investigators were examining three flight
recorders recovered from the crash scene, Majidi said. Fragments of
the plane have been moved to special laboratories in Tehran for
examination, he added.
The plane crashed 16 minutes after takeoff in farm land in a village
in Takestan region of the Qazvin province. (c) UPI
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