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Article: 302 soldiers die as plane crashes into mountain.(News)
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- Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
- Article date:
- February 20, 2003
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A PLANE carrying 302 people, all military personnel, crashed in southern Iran last night, killing all on board, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
The plane was on a domestic flight from Zahedan, on the Pakistan border, to Kerman, about 500 miles south-east of Tehran. It crashed in a mountainous area about 22 miles from its destination.
The plane lost contact with the control tower at 5.30pm local time (1400 GMT).
IRNA reported that all on board the plane had died. It said the plane's passengers and crew were all members of the elite Revolutionary Guards.
No reasons were given for the crash and reports did not address ...