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Iran Air Flight 655 Airbus A300B2: Persian Gulf: 290 fatalities, no survivors: April 26, 1992 Iran Air Tours: Fokker F27 Friendship 400M Saveh, Iran 39 fatalities February 8, 1993 Iran Air Tours. Iranian Air Force. Tupolev Tu-154. Sukhoi Su-24. Mehrabad International Airport: 131 fatalities: October, 1994 Iran Asseman Airlines Flight 746 ...
On 19 May 2024, an Iranian Air Force helicopter crashed near the village of Uzi, East Azerbaijan, Iran, killing President of Iran Ebrahim Raisi, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Governor-General of East Azerbaijan Malek Rahmati, representative of the supreme leader in East Azerbaijan Mohammad Ali Ale-Hashem, the head of the president's security team, and three flight crew.
Since the crash, additional airlines, Air Astana and SCAT Airlines also re-routed flights that overflew Iran. [176] [177] This followed a recommendation by the Kazakhstan Ministry of Industry and Infrastructure Development, issued to Kazakhstani air companies after the crash, to avoid flying over Iran airspace and/or to cancel flights to Iran ...
Survivors. 0. Iran Air Flight 655 [a] was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by two surface-to-air missiles fired by USS Vincennes, a United States Navy warship. The missiles hit the aircraft, an Airbus A300, while it was flying its usual route over Iran 's territorial waters in ...
January 21 – Iran Air Flight 291, a Boeing 727, crashes into the Alborz Mountains near Tehran, Iran, amid a snowstorm on approach to Mehrabad International Airport; killing all 128 people on board. February 21 – Advance Airlines Flight 4210 , a Beechcraft Super King Air 200, crashes shortly after takeoff from Sydney Airport, following ...
Iran–U.S. RQ-170 incident. On 5 December 2011, an American Lockheed Martin RQ-170 Sentinel unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was captured by Iranian forces near the city of Kashmar in northeastern Iran. The Iranian government announced that the UAV was brought down by its cyberwarfare unit which commandeered the aircraft and safely landed it ...
Desert 1 location in central Iran. Operation Eagle Claw was a failed operation by the United States Armed Forces ordered by U.S. President Jimmy Carter to attempt the rescue of 53 embassy staff held captive at the Embassy of the United States, Tehran on 24 April 1980. The operation, one of Delta Force 's first, [1] encountered many obstacles ...
12. Ground injuries. 90. On 6 December 2005 (Azar 15, 1384) at 14:10 local time (10:40 UTC ), a Lockheed C-130 Hercules military transport aircraft of the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force, tail number 5-8519, c/n 4399, crashed into a ten-story apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, the capital city of Iran.