Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915

Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915
Accident summary
Accident type	Loss of control after engine failure
place	Tehran Mehrabad Airport
date	August 10, 2014
Fatalities	40
Survivors	8th
Aircraft
Aircraft type	HESA Iran-140-100
operator	Sepahan Airlines
Mark	EP-GPA
Departure airport	Tehran Mehrabad Airport
Destination airport	Tabas Airport
Passengers	42
crew	6th
Lists of aviation accidents

On August 10, 2014, on Sepahan Airlines flight 5915 ( flight number : HH5915), an HESA Iran-140-100, an Iranian license build of the Antonov An-140 , crashed immediately after taking off from Tehran-Mehrabad airport due to an engine failure. All six crew members and 34 of the 42 passengers were killed in the accident.

accident

The Sepahan Airlines plane crashed shortly after take-off at 9:18 a.m. local time ( UTC + 4:30 ) on a residential area near the airport. Thereupon a fire broke out. The cause of the accident was the failure of one of the two engines.

consequences

The Iranian President Hassan Rohani imposed a starting ban on all machines of this type until the cause of the accident was clarified.

Web links

• Iran: Many dead in plane crash in Tehran. In: Spiegel Online . August 10, 2014, accessed January 29, 2017 . 
• Plane crash in Iran: passenger plane crashed in Tehran - at least 48 dead. In: Abendzeitung-muenchen.de. August 10, 2014, accessed January 29, 2017 . 
• FAZ.NET: 38 dead in plane crash. In: FAZ.net . August 10, 2014, accessed January 29, 2017 . 
• Simon Hradecky: Crash: Sepahan A140 at Tehran on Aug 10th 2014, lost height after takeoff. In: avherald.com. August 10, 2015, accessed January 29, 2017 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Aviation Safety Network, Sepahan Airlines, HESA Iran-140-100, EP-GPA, August 10, 2014 , accessed February 19, 2018
2. ↑ Crash in Tehran: Pilot probably prevented a major disaster. In: Spiegel Online . August 11, 2014, accessed January 29, 2017 .