Plane Down in Tehran
 

BBC News 24 reports a plane crashed at Tehran Airport....50 people killed....No news on their web site yet.....

According to the Iranian TV, a Saha Airlines plane caught fire on the runway.

Please not one of the last passenger carrying Boeing 707's in the world?

http://static.zsl.org/images/width15...04-web-305.jpg

Update:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/HUG071348.htm

AP Newswire:

Plane crash-lands at Tehran airport, killing one

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - An airliner carrying 157 passengers
skidded off a runway into a river at Tehran's Mehrabad
airport on Wednesday, killing a child, state-run television
reported. Several passengers were reported injured.
Television reports said the landing gear of the Saha
Airlines Boeing 707 failed to open and the plane caught
fire after making a hard landing, its nose and wing
slamming into the runway.
State TV quoted the airline's managing director,
identified only by his last name Nikokar, saying a child
was killed. A woman passenger told the broadcaster that her
son was missing.
«Only one person has been killed and a number of
passengers have been injured,» television quoted Nikokar
as saying.
Initially, government television said 50 people were
killed, then changed its report to say scores were dead. It
later retracted both claims and said only that passengers
were confirmed injured.
TV said part of the plane's fuselage plunged into a river
but passengers were able to jump out of the craft.
The injured, many of whom suffered broken bones, have been
taken to Tehran hospitals for treatment, the television
said.
The plane, carrying 157 passengers, eight of them
children, had just arrived from the tourist island of Kish
in the Persian Gulf at 10:15 p.m. (1745 GMT).
Saha Airline Services is owned by the Iranian military but
also operates civilian flights. It was not immediately
known whether military personnel were on board.
In 2003, Iran suffered its worst-ever air disaster when a
Russian-made Ilyushin military plane crashed in a
mountainous area killing 302 Iranian soldiers. The plane
was on route from to Kerman, about 500 miles southeast of
Tehran.
The toll in the 2003 crash surpassed the 290 killed on
July 3, 1988, when an Iran Air A300 Airbus was shot down
over the Persian Gulf by the USS Vincennes. The U.S.
military said it misidentified the plane as an Iranian
fighter, an account disputed by Iran.

If it was a B-707, fellow ppruners may be interested in viewing an example here...

http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=211093

regards to all

Just heard on the radio, crew left the plane immediatly after the accident....

Regards

picture here

Sadly, I can confirm, that the picture below is of the same aircraft that crashed, Registration EP-SHE

http://www.planepictures.net/netshow.php?id=211093

I'd kill for the chance to fly on a 707 or 720.

The last chance now is with LADE in Argentina, but there are no 707 flights currently in their schedule. They reckon the 707 may be back in their schedule by July.

perhaps the thought might be expressed in a different way?

More pictures at:

http://www.mehrnews.com/fa/NewsDetai...?NewsID=174432

One of my flying memories was flying in a B720 of Olympic from Corfu to Athens and back
Short flight little weight and did she climb
wow upto level 310 and then about 20 mins hold before a very slow decent
return was equally interesting with what I suppose you call a firm landing at Corfu and a lot of braking

well worth the 04.00 start and not getting back to hotel until midnight
The memories

It's a shame some of you think more about the aircraft than those killed.

Well, true...however, I think the plane is sort of the "emotional connection" that some folks here have with the incident. Unless you have relatives or loved ones on the plane it's pretty abstract.

I'd like to think that it goes without saying that we're all sorry that all those people had to die....

Here "all those people" that had to die were three unlucky passengers that were reportedly killed during the evacuation, after falling into a river. Right, that's three too many. Observing the pics, where's the river? Not on the port side, it seems:

http://www.aviation-safety.net/photo...0&vnr=2&kind=C