All 168 on board of flight No 7908 are dead


A Health Ministry official confirmed on Wednesday that all the passengers on board of flight No 7908 of Caspian airplanes have died after their plane crashed minutes after take-off. “The Topolov plane had taken off from Tehran and was en route to the Armenian capital of Yerevan with 153 passengers and 15 crews on board,” Dr. Mohammad-Reza Montazer-Khorasan told IRIB. Montazer-Khorasan said the plane crashed in Qazvin farmlands and that no one else was dead or injured in the point of impact. The crash occurred near Jannat-abad village near Qazvin. According to IRIB reporter, remains of the airliner and bodies of passengers were thrown hundreds of meters away from the point of impact.