Image copyright EPA Image caption The plane crashed into a wall separating the airport from a residential area and then hit a house

A cargo plane crash near the Iranian capital, Tehran, has killed 15 people, Iran's army says.

The Boeing 707 came off the runway and hit a residential area while trying to land at Fath airport in Karaj, 40km (25 miles) west of Tehran, in poor weather.

Only a flight engineer of the 16 people on board was found alive, with no-one reportedly killed on the ground.

The plane's "black box" voice recorder has been found at the crash site, local media reported.

Image copyright EPA Image caption Only the plane's flight engineer is known to have survived

An army spokesman confirmed to state TV that the plane belonged to Iran, and that all those on board were Iranian citizens.

Fath airport belongs to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps, and is located in the central Iranian province of Alborz.

The cargo aircraft was transporting meat from the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek.

Its wreckage was found smouldering among houses in a residential area between Fath and another airport, Payam International Airport.

Local media report that the houses were empty at the time of the crash.

Image copyright Reuters Image caption Rescue teams are now at the site of the wreckage

This is the latest in a series of Iranian plane crashes in recent years.

In February last year, Iran's Aseman Airlines was ordered to ground its fleet of ATR planes after one of them crashed into the Zagros mountains. All 66 people on board died.

And in August 2014, a Sepahan Airlines' Antonov plane crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran, killing 39 of the 40 people on board. It is believed engine failure was the cause

Years of tough US sanctions have prevented officials from purchasing new planes and critical spare parts.

A landmark 2015 deal between Tehran and Washington brought renewed hope that the situation would change - but this was dashed last May when the US pulled out, reinstating sanctions that had been lifted.</s>A Boeing 707 cargo aircraft with 10 people on board has crashed in Iran amid harsh weather conditions, local media report. The ill-fated plane went down at Karaj airport, west of Tehran.

The airplane departed from Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, carrying cargo and 10 people, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency. The Boeing 707 reportedly failed to reach the runway and hit the airport fencing.

Iran’s emergency authority has said the jet hit residential areas near Safadasht, a small city in Tehran province.

Fars News has uploaded photos and videos purportedly showing the aftermath of the crash.

The 707 apparently broke apart and caught fire on impact.

Local authorities immediately sent a medevac helicopter and ambulances to the crash site. There are no immediate reports on casualties.

The Boeing 707, a four-engine, narrow-body jet, entered service back in 1957. Due to its range of 4,630 to 10,650km (2,880 to 6,620 miles) it became a game changer in Western civil aviation.

Nowadays, the 707 is no longer flown by major airlines though some of the jets are still used as civilian or military cargo aircraft.</s>DUBAI (Reuters) - A Boeing 707 cargo plane with at least nine people on board crashed in bad weather on Monday west of the Iranian capital, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, adding that there was no immediate information on casualties.

It was not immediately clear who owned the plane. A spokesman for Iran’s civil aviation told state TV that the plane belonged to Kyrgyzstan. A spokeswoman for Kyrgyzstan’s Manas airport said the plane, en route from Kyrgyzstan’s Manas airport, belonged to Iran’s Payam Air.

“We don’t have clear information about the details of the crash,” said the head of Iran’s emergency department, Pirhossein Kolivand. Another official told Fars that 10 people were on board and that they were all feared killed.

The plane went down near Fath airport, near Karaj in the central Iranian province of Alborz.

Fars said the plane crash-landed after “mistaking the airport with another airfield because of the bad weather”.

Iranian state television showed a plume of smoke rising from the crash site.

TV said rescue teams had been sent to the area, between the airports of Fath and Payam.</s>DUBAI (Reuters) - A Boeing 707 cargo plane with nine people on board crashed on Monday near Iran’s Fath airport, west of the capital, Tehran, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, adding that there was no immediate information on casualties.

“We don’t have clear information about the details of the crash,” said the head of Iran’s emergency department, Pirhossein Kolivand.

Fath airport is near Karaj in the central province of Alborz.

Iranian state television showed pictures of a plume of smoke rising from the crash site. Some reports on Iranian media said 10 people were on board and that they were killed.

TV said rescue teams had been sent to the area, between the airports of Fath and Payam.

“We do not know yet whether it was an Iranian or foreign cargo plane,” a local official told TV.</s>DUBAI (Reuters) - A Boeing 707 military cargo plane crashed in bad weather on Monday west of the Iranian capital, killing 15 out of the 16 people on board, the Iranian army said.

A flight engineer survived and was taken to hospital, the army said in a statement carried by the semi-official Fars news agency.

The plane went down near Fath airport, near Karaj in the central Iranian province of Alborz.

“A Boeing cargo 707 place carrying meat from Bishkek in Kyrgyzstan had an emergency landing at Fath airport today ... the flight engineer has been dispatched to the hospital,” the army said.

“It exited the runway during the landing and caught fire after hitting the wall at the end of the runway,” the army.

The army’s statement came after some confusion over who owned the plane. Earlier on Monday, a spokesman for Iran’s civil aviation told had told state TV that the plane belonged to Kyrgyzstan, while a spokeswoman for Kyrgyzstan’s Manas airport said the plane belonged to Iran’s Payam Air.

State TV said rescue teams had been sent to the area, between the airports of Fath and Payam. It showed footage of burning wreckage of the plane and a plume of smoke rising from the crash site.</s>A military cargo plane crashed near the Iranian capital Tehran with at least 10 people onboard, local media reported on Monday.

The Fars news agency, considered close to Iran’s military, said there were 16 people onboard and that only the flight engineer had survived.

“The plane was a cargo Boeing 707 that overshot the runway during its landing,” Iran’s aviation organisation spokesman Reza Jafarzadeh told state broadcaster IRIB.

IRIB initially said there were 10 people onboard.

Conservative news agency Tasnim said it was a military cargo plane carrying meat from the Kyrgyzstan capital of Bishkek.

The plane belonged to Iran’s Payam Air, a spokeswoman for the Manas airport in Kyrgyzstan said.

Her statement contradicted reports by Iranian media saying the plane belonged to Kyrgyzstan.

IRIB said the plane hit a building after the pilot chose the wrong runway while trying to land at Fath airport in Alborz province, just east of Tehran.

It showed footage of burning wreckage in a wooded area.

More to come ...</s>A Boeing 707 cargo plane has crashed in Karaj airport near capital Tehran</s>TEHRAN - At least 15 people were killed on Monday in a Boeing 707 plane crash near Iran’s northern city of Karaj, the Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) reported.

Among the 15 killed, 14 men and one woman on board, 10 could be identified and five others need further genetic examinations, Hamid Davood Abadi, head of Forensic Medicine Center of Alborz Province, told ISNA.

The cargo plane with 16 on board crashed in a residential area, 45 km west of the capital Tehran, ISNA quoted Pir Hossein Kolivand, head of Emergency Center of Iran, as saying.

The plane had planned to land in Karaj’s Payam Airport but chose to land in the Fath airport for some unknown reason, Naser Charkhsaz, chief of Iran’s Red Crescent Society, told ISNA. After landing in the wrong airport, the plane got out of control and slid out of the runway, hitting an empty residential building and catching fire. The plane, flying from Kyrgyzstan’s capital Bishkek, was carrying a cargo of meat to Iran, according to an announcement by the Public Relations of the Iranian Army.

According to the latest reports, the plane belonged to Iran’s army.</s>A cargo plane has crashed after the pilot lost control in Iran, local media reported on Monday. It is thought there were eight people on board the Boeing 707 when it got in trouble while landing in severe weather.</s>Some reports on Iranian media said 10 people were on board and that they were killed.

Iranian state television showed pictures of a plume of smoke rising from the crash site. (Representational Image)

Dubai: A Boeing 707 cargo plane with nine people on board crashed on Monday near Iran's Fath airport, west of the capital, Tehran, the semi-official Fars news agency reported, adding that there was no immediate information on casualties.

"We don't have clear information about the details of the crash," said the head of Iran's emergency department, Pirhossein Kolivand.

Fath airport is near Karaj in the central province of Alborz.

Iranian state television showed pictures of a plume of smoke rising from the crash site. Some reports on Iranian media said 10 people were on board and that they were killed.

TV said rescue teams had been sent to the area, between the airports of Fath and Payam.

"We do not know yet whether it was an Iranian or foreign cargo plane," a local official told TV.
A Boeing 707 cargo plane crashes into a building in Karaj, Iran, after overshooting the runway during its landing. Officials confirm that of 16 people on board, 15 are killed and one is injured. No casualties are reported on the ground.