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Plane crashes in Iran, 77 killed
At least 77 people were killed and 32 injured when an Iranian Boeing 727 passenger plane crashed in bad weather in northwestern Iran on January 9.
The plane was heading from Tehran to the city of Urumiyeh when it was forced to make an emergency landing.
According to preliminary data, there were about 156 passengers on board.
The last major air crash in Iran was in July 2009 when a Caspian Airlines Tupolev aircraft bound for Armenia caught fire in mid-air and crashed into farmland near the city of Qazvin, killing all 168 people on board.
