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Passenger Jet Crash Kills 17 in Iran

July 24, 2009

Rob Kuznia--HispanicBusiness.com

A passenger jet making an emergency landing in Mashhad skidded of the runway and crashed into a wall Friday, killing 17 passengers, in the second disastrous plane crash Iran has seen in 10 days.

The Russian-made plane from Tehran carried about 160 passengers, the LA Times reported.

Aria Airlines Flight 1525 was an Ilyushin Il-62M, and had experienced "technical glitches, the Times reported.

On July 15 a plane en route to Armenia crashed in Iran, killing all 168 people aboard.



Source: HispanicBusiness.com (c) 2009. All rights reserved


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