"4th Tupolev crashed in Iran during recent years!"
On Wednesday, July 15th a Caspian jetliner carrying 168 people, mostly Iranian and Armenian, nose-dived into a field on the route from Tehran to Yerevan, Armenia. It was a fiery crash that shredded the aircraft and killed everyone aboard.
Iran’s National junior Judo team members were also among the passengers.
The U.S. sanctions prevent Iran from updating its American aircrafts and make it difficult to get European spare parts or planes as well. The country has come to rely on Russian aircraft, many of them old Soviet-era planes.
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