The worst air crash in Iran occurred in February 2003, when a local passenger plane carrying hundreds of members of Iran's elite armed forces Revolutionary Guard crashed, killing 302 people.
June 5438+February 2005, a passenger plane crashed near Tehran, the capital of Iran. The plane directly crashed into a residential building, killing 108 passengers, crew and even civilians on the ground.
On June 5438+065438+ 10, 2006, a military plane crashed, killing all 39 people, including 30 officers of the Revolutionary Guard.
In July 2009, a Russian-made passenger plane suddenly caught fire in the air, and the pilot crashed during an emergency landing, resulting in the death of all 168 people on board.
In recent years, Iran has suffered four rounds of UN sanctions for its controversial nuclear program. Its economy is not optimistic at present, and the inflation rate exceeds double digits. One of the unilateral sanctions imposed on Iran by the United States and the European Union is to prohibit the provision of aircraft and related technical equipment to Iran.
The crashed Boeing 727 was over 40 years old and stopped production on 1984.