Caspian Airlines

Caspian Airlines هواپیمایی کاسپین
IATA code :	RV
ICAO code :	CPN
Call sign :	CASPIAN
Founding:	1993
Seat:	Tehran , Iran
Home airport :	Tehran Imam Khomeini
Management:	Samad Soleimany
Fleet size:	11
Aims:	National and international
Website:	www.caspianairlines.com

Caspian Airlines ( Persian هواپیمایی کاسپین) is an Iranian airline based in Tehran and based at Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport .

history

The airline was founded in 1993 and started operating in September of the same year.

Destinations

Caspian Airlines flies to numerous destinations within Iran. International flights mainly go to cities in the Middle East . The only European destinations are Kiev and Minsk .

fleet

Tupolev Tu-154M of Caspian Airlines

As of March 2020, the Caspian Airlines fleet consists of eleven aircraft with an average age of 26.6 years:

Aircraft type	number	ordered	Remarks
Boeing 737-400	3		former Malaysia Airlines aircraft
Boeing 737-500	2
Boeing 747-200F	1		Cargo plane , former machine of the Iranian Air Force , oldest machine in the fleet, built in 1978
McDonnell Douglas MD-83	5
total	11	-

Incidents

• On July 15, 2009, a Caspian Airlines Tupolev Tu-154M crashed on Caspian Airlines flight 7908 from Tehran to Yerevan near the village of Jannatabad near Qazvin in northwestern Iran. The aircraft with the aircraft registration EP-CPG had an accident 16 minutes after take-off, all 156 passengers and the twelve crew members were killed.
• On January 27, 2020, the MD-83 with the aircraft registration EP-CPZ did not stop before the end of the runway when landing at Mahschahr Airport in southwestern Iran. The end of the runway was run over and the machine only came to a standstill on the motorway behind it. The landing gear broke away, but the cell remained largely intact. All 150 passengers and crew members were uninjured. Preliminary investigations assume a technical defect in the approx. 30 year old machine.

See also

• List of airlines

Web links

Commons : Caspian Airlines  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Caspian Airlines website (Persian)
• Photos of Caspian Airlines on airliners.net

Individual evidence

1. ^ Caspian Airlines Fleet Details and History. In: planespotters.net. Retrieved March 21, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Aviation Safety Network - Aircraft Accident Report for Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 , accessed on June 10, 2016