Iran Air Tours Flight 956

When

12 Feb 2002

Kind

Air disaster

Coordinates

33.47° N, 48.35° E

Description

aviation accident

Deaths

119

Injured

0

Cause

controlled flight into terrain

2002 plane crash near Kermanshah, Iran

Iran Air Tours Flight 956 was a Tupolev Tu-154M which crashed 230 miles (370 km) south-west of Tehran on 12 February 2002. During a non precision approach to runway 11 of Khorramabad Airport, the airliner impacted the Kuh-e Sefid Mountain at an altitude of 9,100 feet (2,800 m), three nautical miles left of the runway centerline. All 12 crew and 107 passengers were killed in the crash.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Iran Air Tours Flight 956 crashes in Tehran”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Под Хорремабадом потерпел катастрофу самолёт Ту-154 авиакомпании Iran Air Tours”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “イランのメヘラーバード国際空港からホッラマーバード空港に向かっていたイランエアツアーズ956便(ツポレフ Tu-154M)がホッラマーバード空港への着陸進入中に空港から25km離れた先にある山に激突して墜落し、乗員乗客119人全員が死亡した(イランエアツアーズ956便墜落事故)。”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page