Passenger aircraft with 180 on board have crashed in Iran
A Boeing 737 aircraft carrying 180 passengers and crew aboard has crashed in Iran.
This is reported by Iranian news agencies Isna and Fars early Wednesday morning. That's what the Reuters news agency writes.
The flight from Ukraine International Airlines was just relieved from Imam Khomeini International Airport in Iran's capital, Tehran, as it crashed as a result of technical problems, according to Iranian media.
There are currently no reports of fatalities or other details of the accident.
Isna reports that ten ambulances have been dispatched to the crash site.
According to the Arab media Al-Jazeera, the passenger plane should have been relieved at 05.15 local time in Tehran, heading for the capital of Ukraine, Kiev. But the departure was delayed by almost an hour until 06.12.
The plane crashed near Parand, a suburb of Tehran.
The accident takes place just hours after Iran launched a missile attack on two Iraqi air bases in revenge for the US killing of a senior Iranian military figure last Friday. On both bases there are American soldiers.
Later on the night of Wednesday Danish time, the United States Aviation Authority, the FAA, banned all non-military aircraft from flying over Iran, Iraq, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf.
It is unknown whether the missile attack in Iraq and the plane crash in Iran have anything to do with each other.
This is reported by Iranian news agencies Isna and Fars early Wednesday morning. That's what the Reuters news agency writes.
The flight from Ukraine International Airlines was just relieved from Imam Khomeini International Airport in Iran's capital, Tehran, as it crashed as a result of technical problems, according to Iranian media.
There are currently no reports of fatalities or other details of the accident.
Isna reports that ten ambulances have been dispatched to the crash site.
According to the Arab media Al-Jazeera, the passenger plane should have been relieved at 05.15 local time in Tehran, heading for the capital of Ukraine, Kiev. But the departure was delayed by almost an hour until 06.12.
The plane crashed near Parand, a suburb of Tehran.
The accident takes place just hours after Iran launched a missile attack on two Iraqi air bases in revenge for the US killing of a senior Iranian military figure last Friday. On both bases there are American soldiers.
Later on the night of Wednesday Danish time, the United States Aviation Authority, the FAA, banned all non-military aircraft from flying over Iran, Iraq, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf.
It is unknown whether the missile attack in Iraq and the plane crash in Iran have anything to do with each other.
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