Plane Crash
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A military transport plane loaded with Iranian journalists and trying to make an emergency landing slammed into a 10-story apartment building, ripping open the top of the structure and igniting a huge fire. At least 128 people were killed.
All 94 people on the plane were killed, most of them Iranian journalists heading to cover military maneuvers in the south. Thirty-four residents of the apartment building also died, and 90 were injured, Tehran state radio said.
Flames leaped out of windows, from the roof and several other floors of the building as panicked residents fled the Towhid complex, a series of high-rise apartment buildings for air force personnel in the Azadi suburb of Tehran.
Wreckage rained down, hitting a nearby gas station, police said. Cars parked below were smashed by falling debris...
The C-130 aircraft had just taken off from the nearby Mehrabad airport en route to Bandar Abbas, a port city in southern Iran. It experienced a technical problem and was returning the Mehrabad for an emergency landing when it hit the building, state-run television said.
The plane, which belonged to the army air force, carried 84 passengers and 10 crew members, Iranian television reported. All aboard were killed, the mayor of Tehran, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, told The Associated Press.
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