An Iranian passenger plane crashed on July 15 morning near the country's northwestern city of Gazvin and all 168 people on board were killed, Iran's state TV IRIB website reported.
Debris is seen at the crash site of the Caspian Airlines plane, which fell into farmland near the city of Qazvin, northwest of Tehran on July 15, 2009. The Iranian airliner en route to neighbouring Armenia crashed on Wednesday, killing all 168 people on board in the worst air disaster in Iran in recent years.
IRIB quoted an official of the Health Ministry Mohammad Reza Montazer Khorasan as saying that all the people on board were killed.
The crash took place 11 minutes after take-off from Tehran's international Imam Khomeini airport and 112.7 km from the capital city.
Among the passengers were 11 members of Iran's national adolescent Judo, according to Iran's official IRNA news agency.
"It is likely that there is an Iranian Parliament (Majlis) member among the deceased passengers," IRNA quoted the Brigadier General Hassan Sajedinia, an Iranian police officer, as saying.
The nationalities of most of the passengers were Iranian while there were some Armenians as well.
The officials from Iran's international airport confirmed that there was no Chinese citizen among the victims.
