Aging Iran airliner crash-lands on highway, injuring only 2

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An Iranian passenger airliner carrying some 150 passengers has skidded off the runway and into a street outside the airport in a southern city. Local airport officials in the city of Mahshahr said no major injuries were reported.

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An Iranian passenger plane sits on a road outside Mahshahr airport after skidding off the runway, in southwestern city of Mahshahr, Iran, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. An Iranian passenger airliner carrying some 150 passengers skidded off the runway and into a street next to the airport in the southern city of Mahshahr on Monday, after apparently losing its landing gear in a hard landing.

Passengers, apparently in shock, calmly exited the aircraft with their carry-on baggage out of a door near the cockpit and another over the plane’s wing, video from Iran’s Civil Aviation Network News showed. A flight attendant shouted at passengers to calmly walk away as another crew member joined her on the wing.

It seems that tragedy was narrowly avoided, however, as images from the scene showed the plane had ground to a halt not far from a populated area. The plane also missed traffic on a major highway linking Mahshahr to Imam Khomeini Port. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83, a single-aisle workhorse introduced in the mid-1980s, largely has been phased out of commercial air travel in the West. American Airlines retired the last of its MD-80 fleet in September.

Maintenance information regarding the American-built MD-83 that crashed Monday was not immediately available. However, Iran has struggled to obtain parts for its aging fleet of airliners amid sanctions by the U.S.

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Lucky they didnt open fire on it

And Iran should be trusted with a Nuclear weapon

I just cancelled my trip to the Middle East.

Thanks alot Trump!

US SANCTIONS THREAT OF SECONDARY SANCTIONS TO OTHER LAW ABIDING NATIONS AND ECONOMIC TERRORISM BY US UK FRANCE GERMANY EU FVEY & NATO NATIONS & THEIR ALLIES

Iran has a lot more problems than the attoyaha

clear violation of 'right goes before left' by the plane (and luckily no one was injured)

Air transportation is having some real issues staying in the air lately.

Who tf Flys Iranian Airlines anymore? Idiots

Result of sunctions

a normal day in Iran

Was AL-CIADA again?

Weird last few weeks in Iranian aviation.

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