TEHRAN: A military cargo plane overshot a runway, crashed and caught fire during a botched landing near the Iranian capital Tehran, killing 13 people, the army said today.
The plane was carrying meat from Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan when it crashed near the capital Tehran, the army said in a statement, adding that “13 of the plane’s personnel were killed”. The charred remains of a plane’s fuselage with Iranian Air Force colors, its nose wedged through the wall of what appeared to be a house was seen in photographs obtained by the Media.
Wreckage including landing gear and a mangled jet engine were scattered nearby. “A (Boeing) cargo 707 plane carrying meat took off from Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan and had an emergency landing at Fath airport this morning,” the army said in a statement on its website. “It exited the runway during the landing and caught fire after hitting the wall at the end of the runway.” Fath airport is in Alborz province, just northwest of Tehran.
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