150 FEARED DEAD INPASSENGER PLANE CRASH

An Iranian passenger plane carrying 150 people has crashed in the north of the country an Iranian official said that the plane broke into pieces and all those on board were feared dead. The plane, a Tupolev, came down near Jannatabad village in Qazvin province. The Caspian Airlines plane was travelling from the Iranian capital, Tehran, to Yerevan in Armenia when it crashed. "The 7908 Caspian flight crashed 16 minutes after its take-off from the International Imam Khomeini Airport," Iran's Aviation Organisation