On January 9, at least 70 people were killed and 33 injured when an Iranian Air Boeing 727 passenger aircraft crashed in bad weather conditions in northwestern Iran. The health state of 10 passengers is esteemed as extremely grave. The plane was heading from Tehran to the city of Urumiyeh.

One of the two black boxes was recovered. The pilot had lost contact with the airport before the plane disappeared off the radar. Mehr agency reported.

Iran has suffered a string of crashes in recent years.

As NEWS.am reported previously, the last major air crash in Iran was in July 2009 when a Caspian Airlines Tupolev aircraft bound for Armenia caught fire in mid-air and crashed near the city of Qazvin, killing all 168 people on board.