DUBAI: A Boeing 707 military cargo plane crashed in bad weather on Mondaywest of the Iranian capital, killing 15 out of the 16 people on board, theIranian army said.
A flight engineer survived and was taken to hospital, the army said in astatement carried by the semi-official Fars news agency. The aircraft’sblack box – a cockpit voice recorder (CVR) – had been recovered at thecrash site, Fars said.
The plane went down near Fath airport, which belongs to Iran’s eliteRevolutionary Guards Corps and is located near Karaj in the central Iranianprovince of Alborz.
“A Boeing cargo 707 place carrying meat from Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan had anemergency landing at Fath airport today … the flight engineer has beendispatched to the hospital,” the army said in the statement.
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“It exited the runway during the landing and caught fire after hitting thewall at the end of the runway,” it said.
An army spokesman, Shahin Taghikhani, told state TV that the plane belongedto Iran and that all on board were Iranian citizens. The army’s statementcame after conflicting reports over who owned the plane.
