Date & Time

6 December 2005 at 1410LT

Crew on board

10

Type of Aircraft

Pax on board

84

Company name

Crew fatalities

10

Registration

5-8519

Pax fatalities

84

Location

Tehran, Iran

Ground casulaties

12

Schedule

Tehran - Badar Abbas

Total fatalities

106

Construction number

4399

Year of manufacture

1970

Eight minutes after takeoff, captain informed ATC of a technical problem on the number 4 engine. The crew decided to return to Tehran-Mehrabad airport but the aircraft stalled and crashed in front of a 9 floor building. All 94 occupants of the airplane were killed and also 12 people on the ground (building occupants). Most of the airplane's occupants were Iranian journalist and technicians who were flying to Bandar Abbas, in the South region of Iran, to cover military manoeuvres.