Aryanews- An Iranian passenger plane crashed wedensday in northwest Iran, killing 153 passengers and 15 crew members.
Footage from the scene showed a deep trench smashed into an agricultural field by the impact, littered with smoking wreckage. Although the view of a large chunk of wing was obvious, much of the wreckage appeared to be small pieces.
The Russian made Caspian Airline jet was heading to Yerevan, the Armenian capital, when it crashed in a small village, outside Qazvin.
According to the director of emergency services, Hossein Bahzadpour, the plane was completely destroyed and crushed to pieces, burning in flames. Reportedly all the passengers on the flight were killed.
Iranian Civil Aviation Organization spokesman Reza Jafarzadeh told state television that 153 passengers and 15 crewmembers were on board.
Caspian Airlines representative told AP in Yerevan that most of the passengers were Armenians, and that some Georgian citizens and other nationalities were also on board.
