AN-140 down in Iran
Yesterday in Tehran, an AN-140 also known as IRAN-140 crashed right after take off.
There were 39 casualties including the flight crew, and 9 survivors.
Eye witnesses claim that the plane had lost its both engines right after take off and its started banking and went nose down, hits the power lines and crashes in the middle of a public road. next to Mehrabad Airport.
The plane was due to fly to Tabas.
Officials say that they found the black box and they will inform the public once they know what the problem was, and by command of Iran's president, AN-140 has been banned from flying until further notice.
This is not the first time this type of aircraft crashes in Iran.
AN-140 plan was sold to Iran by Antonov, and it has been constructing in Iran.
According to pilots who have been inside the plane and have flown with it, an engine failure is completely normal in this type, but losing both engines and crashing right after take off has only happened once, and it was couple of years back in Isfahan, where 6 pilots were killed in training.
We hope that they find the reason behind this tragedy and hopefully they can fix the problems of this plane and we see not one of them crashing ever again.