How many people died in the Russian-made Tupolev plane crash in Iran?
A passenger plane carrying 168 people smashed into the ground in northwestern Iran Wednesday, killing everyone on board and creating a huge smoldering crater. Ten members of the country’s youth judo team were aboard the Caspian Airlines plane, several sources including Press TV reported. The network said the dead included eight athletes and two coaches. The plane “disintegrated into pieces,” said Col. Masood Jafari Nasab, security commander of the city of Qazvin, close to the crash site. Video of the crash site showed a huge crater in the earth scattered with charred pieces of the plane and tattered passports. “The aircraft all of a sudden fell out of the sky and exploded on impact, where you see the crater,” a witness told Press TV from the crash site. Sirous Saberi, the deputy governor of Qazvin province, said military forces are searching for the plane’s data recorder and cockpit voice recorder to determine the cause of the crash, Press TV said. The Russian-made Tupolev plane went d
