伊朗国家媒体说，一架客机在伊朗西北部坠毁，机上168人全部遇难。伊朗国家电视台星期三报导说，伊朗一家航空公司的客机星期三在飞往亚美尼亚首都埃里温的途中在伊朗北部城市加兹温附近坠毁。
媒体报导说，这架飞机从德黑兰的伊玛目霍梅尼国际机场起飞16分钟后失事。报导援引一些目击者的话说，看到飞机在空中起火。伊朗国家电视台引述一个没有透露身份的目击者的话说，飞机突然从空中坠落，与地面撞击时爆炸，并在地面撞出一个大坑。
然而，伊朗机场执行主任说，飞行员与地面飞行控制人员在飞机失事前的对话并没有出现问题的迹象。录像画面显示了这架里海航空公司客机支离破碎的残骸，坠机现场冒着烟。空难调查人员正在寻找飞机的黑匣子。
Iranian state media say a passenger plane has crashed in northwestern Iran, killing all 168 people on board. State television said Wednesday the Iranian airliner was heading to the Armenian capital of Yerevan when it went down near the northern Iranian city of Qazvin. The plane crashed 16 minutes after taking off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport.
Reports quote some witnesses as saying the plane was on fire in mid-air. State television quotes an unidentified witness as saying the plane suddenly fell from the sky and exploded on impact, causing a huge crater. However, the managing director of Iran’s airport authority said there were no indications of problems in conversations between the pilot and ground controllers before the crash.
Video footage showed a field littered with small pieces of smoking wreckage from the Caspian Airlines plane. Investigators are searching for the plane’s black box (instrument recording device).