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This is a list of major aviation accidents and incidents that took place in Iran, or involved aircraft traveling to and from Iran.
Date | Airline | Aircraft | Location | Casualties |
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December 25, 1952 | Iran Air | Douglas DC-3 | Tehran, Iran | 24 fatalities [1] |
January 21, 1980 | Iran Air | Boeing 727-86 | Alborz Mountains | 128 fatalities |
July 3, 1988 | Iran Air Flight 655 | Airbus A300B2 | Persian Gulf | 290 fatalities, no survivors |
April 26, 1992 | Iran Air Tours | Fokker F27 Friendship 400M | Saveh, Iran | 39 fatalities |
February 8, 1993 | Iran Air Tours | Tupolev Tu-154 | Mehrabad International Airport | 131 fatalities |
October, 1994 | Iran Asseman Airlines Flight 746 | Fokker F-28 | Natanz, Iran | 66 fatalities |
March 17, 1994 | Iranian Air Force | C-130 Hercules | Ballıca, near Stepanakert, Azerbaijan | 32 fatalities |
September 19, 1995 | Kish Air Flight 707 | Boeing | None | |
March 14, 1997 | Iranian Military | northeastern Iran | 80 fatalities | |
Feb. 2, 2000 | Iranian Air Force | C-130 | Tehran Airport | 8 fatalities |
Nov 13, 2000 | Aria Air | Yakovlev | Southern Iran | 1 fatality; 2 injured |
May 18, 2001 | Faraz Qeshm Airlines | YAK-40 | 13 miles (21 km) from Sari, Iran | 29 fatalities |
Feb. 12, 2002 | Iran Air Tours Flight 956 | Tupolev Tu-154 | Khorramabad, Iran | 118 fatalities |
Dec. 23, 2002 | Aeromist-Kharkiv Flight 2137 | Antonov An-140 | Isfahan, Iran | 44 fatalities |
February 19, 2003 | IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard) | Ilyushin Il-76 | 22 miles (35 km) SE of Kerman, Iran | 275 fatalities |
Feb. 10, 2004 | Kish Air | Fokker-50 | Sharjah, UAE | 43 fatalities |
April 20, 2005 | Saha Air Lines | Boeing 707-300 | Tehran | 3 fatalities [2] |
December 6, 2005 | Iranian Air Force | C-130E Hercules | Tehran | 128 or 116 fatalities; 90 injured |
Jan. 9, 2006 | IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard) | Falcon | Near Urmiye, Iran | 11 fatalities |
September 1, 2006 | Iran Air Tours | Tupolev Tu-154M | Mashad, Iran | 28 fatalities |
Nov. 27, 2006 | Iranian Military | Antonov An-74 | Tehran | 36 fatalities |
July 23, 2007 | Iranian Military | Mashad, Iran | None | |
January 2, 2008 | Iran Air | Fokker 100 | Tehran | None |
Aug. 24, 2008 | Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 6895 | Boeing 737-219 | Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan | 68 fatalities; 15 injured |
February 15, 2009 | Training | IrAn-140 | Near Isfahan/Shahin Shahr-Hesa Air Base | 5 fatalities |
July 15, 2009 | Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 | Tupolev Tu-154 | Jannatabad, outside Qazvin, Iran | 168 fatalities |
July 24, 2009 | Aria Air Flight 1525 | Ilyushin IL-62M | Mashhad, Iran | 16 fatalities; 19 injured |
January 9, 2011 | Iran Air Flight 277 | Boeing 727-286Adv | Urmiye (OMH), Iran | 78 fatalities; 26 injured |
March 3, 2014 | IR-CAO (Iran Civil Aviation Organization) | Dassault Falcon 20 | Kish, Iran | 4 fatalities |
May 10, 2014 | Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 8053 | Fokker 100 | Zahedan, Iran | 0 fatalities; 9 injured |
August 10, 2014 | Sepahan Airlines Flight 5915 | IrAn-140 | Tehran, Iran | 40 fatalities; 8 injured |
Feb 18, 2018 | Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704 | ATR 72-212 | near Semirom, Iran | 65 fatalities |
Jan 8, 2020 | Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 | Boeing 737-8KV | near Parand, Iran | 176 fatalities |
Jan 27, 2020 | Caspian Airlines Flight 6936 | MD-83 | city of Mahshahr, Iran | No casualties reported |
May 19, 2024 | Iranian Air Force | Bell 212 | near Varzaqan, Iran | 9 fatalities |
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