Timeline: Air crashes involving Iran
LONDON, England (Reuters) -- The following is a chronology of some major air crashes involving Iran since 1980:
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An Iranian airliner crashes in flames at Sharjah airport.
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January 21, 1980 -- Iran Air Boeing 727 flying from Mashhad to Tehran crashes on a mountainside in fog killing all 128 on board.
November 3, 1986 -- An Iranian Hercules C-130 army transport plane crashes into a mountain while trying to land at Zahedan airport, killing all 103 on board.
July 3, 1988 -- An Iran Air A-300 Airbus is shot down over the Gulf by the U.S. warship Vincennes, which wrongly identifies it as an attacking fighter. All 290 people on board are killed.
February 8, 1993 -- An Iranian airliner chartered by Iran Air Tours crashes after colliding with a military Sukhoi plane, killing all 132 on board. The pilot and co-pilot of the military plane are also killed.
March 17, 1994 -- A C-130 Hercules transport plane carrying Iranian women and children home for the Muslim New Year crashes in the disputed Caucasus enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, killing 19 passengers and 13 crew.
October 12, 1994 -- An Aseman Airline Fokker F-28 crashes on a Iranian flight from Isfahan to Tehran, killing all 66 aboard. It crashes near Natanz, 150 miles (240 km) south of Tehran.
March 14, 1997 -- An Iranian military plane with about 80 people on board crashes in a mountainous region in northeastern Iran, killing all passengers and crew.
February 2, 2000 -- An Iranian Air Force C-130 loses control during take-off from Tehran and crashes into an empty Iran Air A300. Both planes are destroyed and all six aboard the C-130 are killed.
May 17, 2001 -- A Russian Yak-40 plane carrying 29 people, including Iran's Transport Minister Rahman Dadman and other deputy ministers crashes in northern Iran killing all on board.
February 12, 2002 -- An Iran Air Tours Tupolev-154 crashes near the western city of Khorramabad. All 119 people aboard are killed.
December 23, 2002 -- A Ukrainian Antonov An-140 plane crashes into a mountain in central Iran, killing all 46 aboard. Most of the passengers were top Ukrainian and Russian aerospace officials travelling to Iran to test fly an Iranian-built copy of the plane. The crash was blamed on pilot error.
February 19, 2003 -- An Iranian Ilyushin-76 troop carrier crashes in southeastern Iran killing all 276 Revolutionary Guard soldiers and crew aboard.
February 10, 2004 -- A Kish airlines Fokker-50 plane crashes during landing in Sharjah airport in the United Arab Emirates killing 40 of the 45 passengers and crew aboard. (Full story)
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