Iran Airtour Flight 945
2006 aviation accident
36°14′00″N 59°38′30″E / 36.2333°N 59.6417°E / 36.2333; 59.6417On September 1, 2006, an Iran Airtour Tu-154 aircraft traveling from Bandar Abbas with 11 crew and 137 passengers on board burst into flames upon landing in Mashhad, Iran at 13:45 local time killing 28 of those on board.[1][2]
Possible causes
The specific cause is not known, however it is believed that the nose gear tire blew on landing.[1]
Aircraft
The aircraft had been in active service since 1988 and had approximately 19,000 hours of flight time over about 2,200 flights. It was originally owned by Aeroflot. The plane was leased by Iran Airtour in August 2005 after having been operated by a number of other carriers.[3]
References
- ^ a b "EP-MCF | ASN accident description". Aviation-safety.net. Flight Safety Foundation. Archived from the original on 29 September 2007. Retrieved 26 July 2009.
- ^ "Dozens killed in Iran plane fire". BBC News. 1 September 2006. Archived from the original on 22 June 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2022.
- ^ Aaron Karp (4 September 2006). "Iran Air Tours Tu-154M crashes on landing, 29 passengers confirmed dead". Air Transport World. Archived from the original on 14 July 2012. Retrieved 12 September 2011.
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Aviation accidents and incidents in Iran
- Jask Imperial Airways de Havilland Hercules crash (September 1929)
- KLM Bushehr incident (July 1935)
- Misrair SNCASE Languedoc crash (December 1951)
- Sterling Airways Flight 901 (March 1974)
- Tehran UFO incident (September 1976)
- Iran Air Flight 291 (January 1980)
- Iranian Air Force C-130 crash (September 1981)
- Kuwait Airways Flight 422 (April 1988)
- Iran Air Flight 655 (July 1988)
- Tehran mid-air collision (February 1993)
- Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 746 (October 1994)
- Faraz Qeshm Airlines Yak-40 crash (May 2001)
- Iran Air Tours Flight 956 (February 2002)
- Aeromist-Kharkiv Flight 2137 (December 2002)
- Iran Ilyushin Il-76 crash (February 2003)
- Iranian Air Force C-130 crash (December 2005)
- Iran Air Tours Flight 945 (September 2006)
- Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 (July 2009)
- Aria Air Flight 1525 (July 2009)
- Iranian Air Force Ilyushin Il-76 accident (September 2009)
- Taban Air Flight 6437 (January 2010)
- Iran Air Flight 277 (January 2011)
- Iran Air Flight 742 (October 2011)
- Iran–U.S. RQ-170 incident (December 2011)
- Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 (August 2014)
- Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 (February 2018)
- Iran Bombardier Challenger crash (March 2018)
- Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crash (January 2019)
- Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 (January 2020)
- Caspian Airlines Flight 6936 (January 2020)
- Varzaqan helicopter crash (May 2024)
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