A commercial airliner has crashed killing all 168 on board. The fatal crash occurred in Northern Iran when a Russian-made Tupolevs jet flying inder the name of Caspian Airlines was heading from Tehran to the Armenian capital Yerevan. The 168 included 153 passengers and 15 crewmembers.
Caspian Airlines is a Russian-Iranian joint venture. The venture was started in 1993.
Iran has frequent plane crashes often because of bad maintenance of its aging aircraft. In February 2006, a Russian-made TU-154 operated by Iran Airtour, which is affiliated with Iran's national carrier, crashed during landing in Tehran, killing 29 of the 148 people on board.
Another In another deadly crash a Airtour Tupolev crashed in 2002 in the mountains of western Iran, killing all 199 on board.
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