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Cargo plane crashes in Iran with 10 onboard: media
TEHRAN, Jan 14, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – A military cargo plane crashed near the
Iranian capital Tehran with 10 people onboard, state TV reported Monday.
“The plane was a cargo Boeing 707 that overshot the runway during its
landing,” Iran’s aviation organisation spokesman Reza Jafarzadeh told state
broadcaster IRIB.
Conservative news agencies Fars and Tasnim said it was a military cargo
plane carrying meat from the Kyrgyzstan capital of Bishkek.
IRIB said the plane hit a building after the pilot chose the wrong runway
while trying to land at Fath airport in Alborz province, just east of Tehran.
BSS/AFP/GMR/1238 hrs