72 killed, 33 survive, in Iran air crash

A passenger plane with 105 passengers on side crashed Sunday evening in northwest Iran and 72 passengers, including 12 crew members, had been killed, the semi- official Fars news agency reported early Monday morning.

Based on the newest report of your Coroner Office of Iran's West Azerbaijan province, 33 survived around the crash but were injured, said Fars.

The Boeing-727, belonging to the state-owned Iran-Air airliners, had been delayed twice caused by bad weather in Tehran, which saw brief snow on Sunday morning, said an early on report by Fars.

The plane took off from Tehran Mehrabad airport at 18:00 local time (1230 GMT) and involved to arrive at the city of Uroumieh at 19:45 local time 1615 GMT when it crashed near a village, some 15 kilometers from Uroumieh, Mr. Jalalzadeh, the Governor of West Azerbaijan told Iran state IRINN TV.

"Ten minutes prior to a plane arrived at the Uroumieh airport, the pilot informed manchester international control tower that it cannot land a result of the bad whether or not condition ... and after that it disappeared of your radar," said Jalalzadeh.

Nevertheless, in yet another report by Meher news agency, the political deputy of West Azerbaijan governor, asserted the last conversation belonging to the pilot with the control tower says, prior to the emergency landing, he previously announced that his plane has a technical problem.

Upon emergency landing and mainly because of the lack of clear vision belonging to the internet page, the plane crashed and broke straight into the pieces, Ebrahim Fathollahi told Mehr.

The plane crashed inside village. The villagers reported the authorities and took the injured men and women from the plane and rushed the crooks to the nearest hospitals, the governor of West Azerbaijan told IRINN TV.

Every one of the injured passengers have been taken to the hospitals nearby, he was quoted saying.

Iran has seen a number of air disasters, involving both civil and military use aircraft, realize it's a huge.

In July 2009, a Caspian Airlines plane crashed near the northwestern city of Qazvin, killing all 168 persons up to speed.

Experts said the U.S.-imposed sanctions against Iran, which prevented its allies from selling aircraft or aircraft parts to your country, have undermined safety standards within Iran's civil and military aviation fleet and are generally increasing the likelihood of additional air disasters.

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