Iran Airtour Flight 956
Iran Air Tours Tupolev Tu-154M · Controlled flight into terrain in poor visibility
From Mehrabad International Airport (THR) to Khoram Abad Airport (KHD)
Event
- 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
- Accident
- Event fatalities
- 119 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- 119
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 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
- Airline
Tupolev Tu-154M
- Flight
- B9956
- Aircraft type
- Tupolev TU-154
- Category
- Airplane · from aircraft type
- 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-MBS
- Operator
- Iran Air Tours
- Onboard fatalities
- 119
- Route
- From Mehrabad International Airport (THR)To Khoram Abad Airport (KHD)
Approximate · Coordinates from the Wikipedia article; not checked against an investigation report.
From the Wikipedia article
Iran Air Tours Flight 956 was a Tupolev Tu-154M which crashed 230 mi south-west of Tehran on 12 February 2002. During a non precision approach to runway 11 of Khorramabad Airport, the airliner impacted the Kuh-e Sefid Mountain at an altitude of 9,100 ft, 3 nmi left of the runway centerline. All 12 crew and 107 passengers were killed in the crash. The aircraft was carrying four government officials. It remains the 5th worst plane crash in Iranian history.
Crash
Flight 956 of Iran Air Tours departed from Tehran to Khorramabad at 7:30 a.m. with 12 crew members and 107 passengers on board. Among the passengers were 4 government officials and at least 4 Spanish passengers. The landing was carried out in bad weather conditions, with the crew deviating 3 km from the left axis of the runway. Approximately 15 mi from the airport, at an altitude of 9,100 ft above sea level, the Tu-154 crashed into the Kuh-e Sefid mountain near the village of Sarab-e Dowreh and exploded. All 119 occupants on board were killed. Firstly, newspapers mistakenly indicated 117 dead. It is said that the aircraft could not perform the required IFR approach due to the airport not having the Soviet style navigation aides and was performing a VFR approach instead in bad weather conditions. Based on the CVR, the copilot warned the captain of the aircraft warnings but was ignored because of captain's over-confidence.
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Sources
Wikipedia article: Iran Airtour Flight 956
- Article
- Iran Airtour Flight 956
- Revision
- 1351570475 · 2026-04-28 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q11737216
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Iran Airtour Flight 956" (page 40019299, revision 1351570475)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia article coordinates
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports)
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the Wikipedia article's infobox and coordinates, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.