A Russian made Illushin-62 with 153 passengers on board which was flying from Tehran to Mashad on Friday afternoon faced with a problem during landing in Hashemi-nejad Airport, Mashad, at 18:10 hours local time (14:40 hours GMT). 16 persons were killed in the plane incident on Friday, three of them passengers and the rest of them crew. Civil Aviation Spokesman Reza Jafarzadeh said that among the crew 9 persons were citizens of Kazakhstan and 4 of them were Iranian. He added that the plane, an Illushin–62, belongs to Kazakhstan and was chartered by Aria Airline. The Spokesman said that around 30 people of the 153 people on board have been injured. Qahreman Rashid, the provincial official, confirmed that names of 88 passengers who are healthy and alive have been checked by the passenger list. Rashid said that cause of the incident is under investigation.