Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 · Iran
On July 15, 2009, Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 (Iran). 168 people died.
- Date
- July 15, 2009
- Place
- Iran
- Killed
- 168
- Position
- 35.881°N, 49.968°E
- Wikidata ID
- Q842831
From Wikipedia
Caspian Airlines Flight 7908 was a scheduled commercial flight from Tehran, Iran, to Yerevan, Armenia, that crashed near the village of Jannatabad, outside the city of Qazvin in north-western Iran, on 15 July 2009. All 153 passengers and 15 crew members on board died.
The subsequent crash investigation found that the incident had been caused by fatigue failure and consequent disintegration of a rotor disc in the left hand engine (engine No. 1). Fragments of the disc severed two of the three hydraulic control systems and damaged fuel lines for the center engine (engine No. 2). Fuel leaking from these damaged lines ignited, causing a large fire. The engine failure also severed the control rods on the tail of the plane, resulting in the pilots losing control of the aircraft.
Text from Wikipedia, “Caspian Airlines Flight 7908”, CC BY-SA 4.0; shortened to the introduction. Authors.
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