Iran Airtour Flight 956
| Iran Airtour Flight 956 | |
|---|---|
 A Tu-154M Iran Airtour |
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| Accident summary | |
| Accident type | Controlled flight into terrain |
| place | near Sarāb Doreh , Iran
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| date | February 12, 2002 |
| Fatalities | 119 |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft | |
| Aircraft type |
 Tupolev Tu-154M
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| operator |
Iran airtour
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| Mark |
EP-MBS
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| Departure airport |
Tehran Mehrabad Airport , Iran
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| Destination airport |
Khorramabad Airport , Iran
|
| Passengers | 107 |
| crew | 12 |
| Lists of aviation accidents | |
The Iran Airtour flight 956 was a domestic scheduled flight of the Iran Airtour from Tehran to Khorramabad . On February 12, 2002, a serious aircraft accident occurred on this flight when a Tupolev Tu-154M of the airline was flown into a mountain. All 119 people on board the machine were killed in the accident.
machine
The affected machine was a Tupolev Tu-154M built in 1991 with the factory number 91A871 . The machine was delivered to the forerunner of Azerbaijan Airlines in June 1991 with the aircraft registration number CCCP-85698 . In 1993 Azerbaijan Airlines re-registered the machine with the new Azerbaijani aircraft registration number 4K-85698 . In May 2000 Balkan Bulgarian Airlines took over the machine and registered it with the new license plate LZ-LTO , from December 2000 Bulgarian Air Charter operated the machine with the license plate LZ-LCO . In January 2002 the machine was handed over to Iran Airtour and approved by them with the aircraft registration EP-MBS . The three- engine, medium - range, narrow-body aircraft was equipped with three type D-30KU-154 jet engines. By the time of the accident, the machine had completed a total of 12,701 operating hours, which accounted for 5,516 take-offs and landings.
Passengers and crew
On board the machine were 107 passengers who had booked the domestic scheduled flight B9956 from Tehran to Khorramabad, as well as 12 crew members. Four passengers were Spanish citizens. You were in the country on behalf of a Spanish electrical appliance company, commissioned to complete a sale.
the accident
The flight was carried out at the early hour. The flight went smoothly until the start of the approach to Khorramabad. Approach control gave the crew clearance to approach runway 11. The approach was carried out as a non-precision approach . During the descent to Khorramabad, the machine was flown 9,100 feet into Mount Kuh-e Sefid.
After the accident
The machine crashed on the snow-covered slope of the mountain, small pieces of wreckage lay scattered over the slope. The flight data recorder was recovered after a five-day search. The wreck of the machine was 3 nautical miles to the left of the course to the runway centerline.
swell
- Accident report Tu-154M, EP-MBS in the Aviation Safety Network
- Iran plane crash kills 117 , BBC News , February 12, 2002.
- Operating history of the machine on russianplanes.net
Coordinates: 33 ° 28 ′ 0.1 ″ N , 48 ° 21 ′ 0 ″ E