ENG10WA011 · Airbus A300-600R
Iran Air Airbus A300-600R · Incident
From Stockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN) to Mehrabad International Airport (THR)
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Event
- NTSB case
- ENG10WA011
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Incident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- Event fatalities
- Unknown Narrative disagrees
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Unknown
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Airbus A300-600R
- Aircraft type
- Airbus A300
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- EP-IBB
- Operator
- Iran Air
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route Narrative disagrees
- From Stockholm-Arlanda Airport (ARN), TEHERANTo Mehrabad International Airport (THR), Teheran
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Unknown
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Not recorded
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Not recorded
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Minor
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Approximate · Estimated position: the centre of Stockholm, the place the record names. Not the accident site.
NTSB narrative
On January 16, 2010, an Iran Air Airbus A300-600, registration number EP-IBB, experienced a failure and flames coming from the aft end of the No. 1 (left) engine, a General Electric CF6-80C2A5F engine, during the initial takeoff roll. The takeoff was aborted and the airplane veered left off the runway and came to rest in a snow covered grass area. Damage was reported to the No. 1 engine, nose wheel landing gear, left main landing gear, and landing lights. Small parts from the engine were recovered from the runway. There were no reported injuries to the 23 crew members or 149 passengers on board. The flight was scheduled from Stockhom-Arlanda Airport (ARN), Sweden to Mehrabad International Airport (THR) Tehran.
The investigation is under the jurisdiction of the government of Sweden. Further information pertaining to this incident may be obtained from:
Board of Accident Investigation P.O. Box 12538 S-102 29 Stockholm Sweden
Tel.: (46) 8 441 3823 or (46) 8 508 862 00 E-mail stfgd@havkom.se or info@havkom.se Fax: (46) 8 441 3821 or (46) 8 508 862 90 Website: http://www.havkom.se
This report is for informational purposes only and contains only information obtained for, or released by, the Government of Sweden.
Verbatim NTSB factual narrative from the NTSB dataset
Sources
NTSB record ENG10WA011
- Event ID
- 20100120X85454
- Case number
- ENG10WA011
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (4)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the local date, which is the same as the UTC date the NTSB stores.
- API snapshot SHA-256: 8a388f5c1a92b5ca93c6b9a40aa7709c3d37992dafae58a2f7da26a7b8ab4713; retrieved 2026-09-15T13:38:20.941Z.