Iran Flight Crashes - airliner crashes - breaking news - latest news updateOn board the plane there were 151 adults, 2 children and 15 crew members," Caspian Airline's representative in Yerevan Arlen Davudyan told Reuters at Yerevan Airport.
he further added "5 or 16 minutes after take-off the plane fell near the Iranian city Qazvin about 150 kilometers north of Tehran, it was a Tu-154aircraft and that the cause of the crash was not clear and the black box had not yet been found.
Caspian Airlines plane was carrying 153 passengers and 15 crew.
A senior Iranian provincial official, Sirous Saberi, said the aircraft had experienced technical problems and had tried to do an emergency landing. "Unfortunately the plane caught fire in the air and it crashed," he told semi-official Fars News Agency.
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