Boeing cargo plane crashes, one survivor
A BOEING 707 military cargo plane crashed in bad weather yesterday west of the Iranian capital, killing 15 of the 16 people on board, the Iranian army said.
A flight engineer survived and was taken to hospital, the army said in a statement carried by the semi-official Fars news agency. The aircraft’s black box – a cockpit voice recorder (CVR) – was recovered at the crash site.
The plane went down near Fath airport, which belongs to Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards Corps and is located near Karaj in the central Iranian province of Alborz.
“A Boeing cargo 707 plane carrying meat from Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan had an emergency landing at Fath airport today,” the army said.
“It exited the runway during the landing and caught fire after hitting the wall at the end of the runway,” it said.
An army spokesperson, Shahin Taghikhani, told state television that the plane belonged to Iran and that all on board were Iranian citizens. The army’s statement came after conflicting reports over who owned the plane.
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