WATCH Iran Air Plane Engulfed in Flames During Emergency Landing in Tehran
20th March 2019
According to Press TV, the Iran Air plane with 100 passengers on board heading to Tehran had to perform an emergency landing at Mehrabad International Airport due to landing gear failure.
The footage shows an aircraft catching fire during an emergency landing at an airport in Tehran, with blazes breaking out in a different part of the aircraft. The emergency services managed to extinguish the fire, after evacuating half of the passengers, and later evacuated the rest of the people on board.
A #Fokker 100 belonging to #IranAir caught fire on landing at #Tehran's Mehrabad Airport on Tuesday but all 100 passengers were evacuated without injury. The pilot was unable to open the back wheels of the plane.#sanctions #Iran pic.twitter.com/f7RXD9yxiX
— Hossein Aghaie (@Haghaie) 19 марта 2019 г.
According to Press TV, there were no injuries during the rescue operation, however, the cause of the accident remains unknown at the moment.Source: sputniknews.com