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A RUSSIAN-MADE Iranian airliner carrying 168 people crashed shortly after take-off from Tehran yesterday, smashing into a field northwest of the capital and shattering into flaming pieces. All on board were killed in Iran’s worst air disaster in six years.
No South Africans appear to have been on board the aircraft.

The airline’s tail was on fire as it circled just before crashing, one witness said.
“Then, I saw the plane crashing nose-down. It hit the ground, causing a big explosion. The impact shook the ground like an earthquake. Plane pieces were scattered all over the agricultural fields,” said Ali Akbar Hashemi, a 23-year-old who was laying gas pipes in a nearby home.
The impact blasted a deep trench in the field, which was littered with smoking wreckage, body parts and personal belongings from the Tupolev jet, according to photographs .
A large chunk of a wing was visible in video footage , but much of the wreckage appeared to be in small shreds.
There have been numerous aircraft crashes in Iran in recent years. They are usually blamed on poor maintenance, and Iranian officials claim that US sanctions prevent them from upgrading US aircraft bought before the 1979 Islamic revolution .
Iranian airlines and the military have turned increasingly to Russian aircraft, but there has been a string of accidents involving them. Two other Tupolev crashes in Iran this decade have killed nearly 140 people.
The Caspian Airlines Tu-154M jet took off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport yesterday morning and was headed for the Armenian capital of Yerevan. It crashed at 11.30am, about 16 minutes after take-off, outside the village of Jannat Abad, near the city of Qazvin .
The cause of the crash is not known.
Hossein Ayaznia, an aviation police official, said emergency workers were searching for the aircraft’s flight-data recorders.
Most of the passengers were Iranians, many from Iran’s ethnic Armenian community.
There were also six Armenian citizens and two Georgians.

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