Iranian Revolutionary Guard Dassault Falcon accident
Dassault Falcon 20E · Failed emergency landing in a field after total engine failure due to icing
From Mehrabad International Airport (THR) to Urmia Airport (OMH)
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
- 11 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- Unknown
- Occupants
- Unknown
- 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
- Military
Dassault Falcon 20E
- Aircraft type
- Dassault Falcon 20
- 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
- 15-2233
- Operator
- Iranian Revolutionary Guard
- Onboard fatalities
- 11
- Route
- From Mehrabad International Airport (THR)To Urmia Airport (OMH)
Cause areas
- Aircraft › Aircraft power plant
- Environmental issues › Conditions/weather/phenomena
From the investigation findings the Wikipedia article reports, sorted into the NTSB's cause areas with AI assistance.
Approximate · Estimated position: Urmia, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Dassault Falcon accident occurred on 9 January 2006 near Urmia, when a Dassault Falcon 20E, operating a flight from Tehran-Mehrabad Airport to Urmia Airport, suffered a total engine failure as a result of in-flight icing. All eleven occupants of the Falcon were killed in a subsequent failed emergency landing in a field.
Accident sequence
The accident occurred at around 9:30 local time. When the aircraft was on approach to Urmia in difficult weather conditions and the landing gear was extended for landing, the three green indicator lights did not illuminate as required. For this reason, the aircraft overflew the Urmia control tower so that the air traffic controllers could check from the ground whether the landing gear was correctly extended. While the aircraft was circling over the destination airport, a flameout occurred in both engines. An attempt was then made to make an emergency landing in a field, but the aircraft crashed. All eleven occupants were killed.
Investigation and cause
Cause
The cause of the total engine failure was given as in-flight icing of the engines.
Translated into English with AI assistance from the German Wikipedia article “Flugunfall einer Dassault Falcon der Iranischen Revolutionsgarde” (revision 269743566, retrieved 2026-09-19) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out; the translation may contain errors, and long articles were cut to their first 700 words. Read the article
Sources
German Wikipedia article: Flugunfall einer Dassault Falcon der Iranischen Revolutionsgarde
- Translation
- Into English with AI assistance; names of linked operators and aircraft types from Wikidata. It may contain errors.
- Revision
- 269743566 · 2026-08-17 · retrieved 2026-09-19
- Wikidata
- Q106610509
- 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
- de Wikipedia article "Flugunfall einer Dassault Falcon der Iranischen Revolutionsgarde" (page 11742843, revision 269743566), translated into English with AI assistance
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata 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
- operator is an armed force according to Wikidata
- Fatalities
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft fatalities
- Ground fatalities
- not stated in the Wikipedia infobox
- Summary
- Wikipedia article lead
Source notes (1)
- Wikipedia · Facts from the German Wikipedia article's infobox, translated into English with AI assistance, not checked against an investigation report. Independent review pending.