List of Iranian aviation accidents and incidents

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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.

DateAirlineAircraftLocationCasualties
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, Iran39 fatalities
February 8, 1993 Iran Air Tours

Iranian Air Force

Tupolev Tu-154

Sukhoi Su-24

Mehrabad International Airport 131 fatalities
October, 1994 Iran Asseman Airlines Flight 746 Fokker F-28 Natanz, Iran66 fatalities
March 17, 1994 Iranian Air Force C-130 Hercules Ballıca, near Stepanakert, Azerbaijan 32 fatalities
September 19, 1995 Kish Air Flight 707 BoeingNone
March 14, 1997Iranian Militarynortheastern Iran80 fatalities
Feb. 2, 2000Iranian Air ForceC-130Tehran Airport8 fatalities
Nov 13, 2000 Aria Air YakovlevSouthern Iran1 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 EP-MBS Khorramabad, Iran 118 fatalities
Dec. 23, 2002 Aeromist-Kharkiv Flight 2137 Antonov An-140 UR-14003 Isfahan, Iran44 fatalities
February 19, 2003IRGC (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, 2006IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard)FalconNear Urmiye, Iran11 fatalities
September 1, 2006 Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154M Mashad, Iran 28 fatalities
Nov. 27, 2006Iranian Military Antonov An-74 Tehran 36 fatalities
July 23, 2007Iranian Military Mashad, IranNone
January 2, 2008 Iran Air Fokker 100 TehranNone
Aug. 24, 2008 Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 6895Boeing 737-219 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan 68 fatalities; 15 injured
February 15, 2009TrainingIrAn-140Near 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, Iran4 fatalities
May 10, 2014 Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 8053 Fokker 100 Zahedan, Iran0 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 72-212near 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, IranNo casualties reported
May 19, 2024 Iranian Air Force Bell 212 near Varzaqan, Iran 8 fatalities

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References

  1. "Crash of a Douglas C-47A-35-DL in Tehran: 27 killed | Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives". www.baaa-acro.com. Retrieved 2023-01-25.
  2. Flight International, July 2005