{"id":29082,"date":"2019-01-14T13:23:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T13:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29082"},"modified":"2019-01-14T13:23:24","modified_gmt":"2019-01-14T13:23:24","slug":"cargo-plane-crashes-in-iran-killing-15-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=29082","title":{"rendered":"Cargo plane crashes in Iran killing 15: Army"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Boeing 707 military cargo plane crashed in bad weather on Monday west of Tehran, killing 15 out of the 16 people on board, the\u00a0Iran<\/span>ian army has said.<\/p>\n

A flight engineer survived and was taken to the hospital, the army said in a statement carried by the semi-official Fars news agency.<\/p>\n

The plane went down near Fath airport, near Karaj in Iran<\/span><\/a>‘s central province of Alborz.<\/p>\n

“A Boeing cargo 707 plane carrying meat from Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan had an emergency landing at Fath airport today … the flight engineer has been dispatched to the hospital,” the army said.<\/p>\n

“It exited the runway during the landing and caught fire after hitting the wall at the end of the runway,” the army said.<\/p>\n

The army’s statement came after some confusion over who owned the plane. Earlier on Monday, a spokesman for\u00a0Iran<\/span>‘s civil aviation had told state TV that the plane belonged to\u00a0Kyrgyzstan<\/a>. However, a spokeswoman for Kyrgyzstan’s Manas airport said the plane belonged to\u00a0Iran<\/span>‘s Payam Air.<\/p>\n

State TV said rescue teams had been sent to the area, between the airports of Fath and Payam. It showed footage of burning wreckage of the plane and a plume of smoke rising from the crash site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Boeing 707 military cargo plane crashed in bad weather on Monday west of Tehran, killing 15 out of the 16 people on board, the\u00a0Iranian army has said. A flight engineer survived and was taken to the hospital, the army said in a statement carried by the semi-official Fars news agency. The plane went down…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":29083,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}