Forty-eight people were killed when a small passenger plane crashed in the west of the Iranian capital Tehran, according to Iranian state TV.
The aircraft, which was heading to the eastern city of Tabas, went down in a residential area near Mehrabad airport on Sunday morning, state media said.
Passengers included five children, Iran's aviation authority said.
Iran has suffered a series of plane crashes, blamed on its ageing aircraft and poor maintenance record.
Iran is still flying planes bought before the Islamic Revolution in 1979.
International trade sanctions were imposed after the hostage crisis which followed, during which 52 Americans were held hostage in Tehran for 444 days.
Many Iranian planes are fitted with unofficial spare parts.
There have been more than 200 accidents involving Iranian planes in the past 25 years, leading to more than 2,000 deaths.
Initial reports indicate the latest incident involved an Iran-140 jet carrying 48 people, including 40 passengers and eight crew.
The plane was said to have crashed at 9:18 local time (4:48 GMT), shortly after takeoff.
People hear "plane crash" and immediately panic without even looking at the reasons. The article says Iran has a history of poor maintenance, usage of unsuitable spare parts and out of date airplanes, so it was most likely related to that. That is hardly news, as certain countries are known for these circumstances and flying there is always a risk.
The Malaysian Airlines jet was shot down, something that is extremely rare and does not have anything to do with aviation safety itself. The other Malaysian Airlines plane disappeared and it is worrying that we were still not able to locate it, however it was probably caused by human intervention so once again, nothing to do with the safety of planes per se.
There are billions of people flying every year, yes if a commercial plane comes down there is usually a big number of victims compared to a car crash but if you compare the number of accidents/incidents to the number of flights carried out it is still an extremely safe mode of transportation. If you happen to be on that one plane that gets shot down or hijacked it's a case of wrong place, wrong time and that could happen to you anywhere.
People hear "plane crash" and immediately panic without even looking at the reasons. The article says Iran has a history of poor maintenance, usage of unsuitable spare parts and out of date airplanes, so it was most likely related to that. That is hardly news, as certain countries are known for these circumstances and flying there is always a risk.
The Malaysian Airlines jet was shot down, something that is extremely rare and does not have anything to do with aviation safety itself. The other Malaysian Airlines plane disappeared and it is worrying that we were still not able to locate it, however it was probably caused by human intervention so once again, nothing to do with the safety of planes per se.
There are billions of people flying every year, yes if a commercial plane comes down there is usually a big number of victims compared to a car crash but if you compare the number of accidents/incidents to the number of flights carried out it is still an extremely safe mode of transportation. If you happen to be on that one plane that gets shot down or hijacked it's a case of wrong place, wrong time and that could happen to you anywhere.
People hear "plane crash" and immediately panic without even looking at the reasons. The article says Iran has a history of poor maintenance, usage of unsuitable spare parts and out of date airplanes, so it was most likely related to that. That is hardly news, as certain countries are known for these circumstances and flying there is always a risk.
The Malaysian Airlines jet was shot down, something that is extremely rare and does not have anything to do with aviation safety itself. The other Malaysian Airlines plane disappeared and it is worrying that we were still not able to locate it, however it was probably caused by human intervention so once again, nothing to do with the safety of planes per se.
There are billions of people flying every year, yes if a commercial plane comes down there is usually a big number of victims compared to a car crash but if you compare the number of accidents/incidents to the number of flights carried out it is still an extremely safe mode of transportation. If you happen to be on that one plane that gets shot down or hijacked it's a case of wrong place, wrong time and that could happen to you anywhere.
and people love throwing out the statistics that it is safer to fly than drive a car.
it felt tight.