Aria Air Flight 1525 was a scheduled Iranian domestic flight which crashed on landing at
Mashhad International Airport
Mashhad International Airport ( fa, فرودگاه بینالمللی مشهد) is an international airport located in Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan, Iran.
Overview
Mashhad international airport is the Iran's second-busiest airport, behind Te ...
,
Mashhad
Mashhad ( fa, مشهد, Mašhad ), also spelled Mashad, is the List of Iranian cities by population, second-most-populous city in Iran, located in the relatively remote north-east of the country about from Tehran. It serves as the capital of R ...
, Iran, on 24 July 2009.
Aircraft
The aircraft involved was an
Ilyushin IL-62M
The Ilyushin Il-62 (russian: Илью́шин Ил-62; NATO reporting name: Classic) is a Soviet long-range narrow-body jetliner conceived in 1960 by Ilyushin. As successor to the popular turboprop Il-18 and with capacity for almost 200 p ...
, registered UP-I6208. The aircraft entered service with
Interflug
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on 1 June 1989 registered DDR-SEY. On 3 October 1990 it was re-registered D-AOAM, serving with Interflug until July 1991 when it was sold to
Aeroflot
PJSC AeroflotRussian Airlines (russian: ПАО "Аэрофло́т — Росси́йские авиали́нии", ), commonly known as Aeroflot ( or ; russian: Аэрофлот, , ), is the flag carrier and the largest airline of Russia. The ...
and re-registered CCCP-86578. In January 1993 as a result of old Soviet Aeroflot assets splitting, it became part of the
Uzbekistan Airways
JSC Uzbekistan Airways, operating as ''Uzbekistan Airways'' ( uz, Oʻzbekiston Havo Yoʻllari, ; russian: Узбекские Авиалинии), is the flag carrier airline of Uzbekistan, headquartered in Tashkent. From its hub at Islam Kari ...
fleet and in March 1993 was re-registered UK-86578. In the early 2000s the aircraft was removed from service. In October 2007 it was leased to
DETA Air
D.E.T.A. LLP operating as DETA Air was an airline, with bases in Almaty and Shymkent, Kazakhstan. Their principal airline routes were to Hong Kong and Istanbul.
History
DETA was founded in 2003. The company performed a variety of passenger an ...
of
Kazakhstan
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, re-registered UN-86509 and then in July 2008 UP-I6208. It was leased to Aria Air in March 2009.
Accident
The accident happened at 18:10
Iran Daylight Time
Iran Standard Time (IRST) or Iran Time (IT) is the time zone used in Iran. Iran uses a UTC offset UTC+03:30. IRST is defined by the 52.5 degrees east meridian, the same meridian which defines the Iranian calendar and is the official meridian of I ...
(13:40 UTC). The aircraft overran the runway at high speed and crashed outside the airport perimeter, the nose area totally destroyed and resting on its tail. There was no fire. Sixteen people were killed. Among the dead were thirteen crew members and three passengers including Aria CEO Mehdi Dadpay. There were 157 survivors of the total of 173 people on board.
The aircraft was reported to have skidded off the runway. The cockpit area of the aircraft was destroyed by the impact with the airport perimeter wall. Nineteen people were reported to have been injured in the accident. The weather was good at the time of the accident, with the
METAR
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Raw METAR is the most common form ...
in force at the time reading "METAR OIMM 241300Z 08014KT CAVOK 34/M03 Q1012 A2989". This translates as,
METAR
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Raw METAR is the most common form ...
for Mashhad International Airport, issued on the 24th of the month at 13:00 UTC, wind at , wind direction 080°; ceiling and visibility OK; temperature 34 °C; dew point −3 °C; altimeter 1012 millibars or 29.89 inches of mercury. The aircraft landed with a crosswind. It landed "long" and overran the end of the runway, hitting a wall located more than further on, which demolished the forward section of the aircraft.
Cause
According to the investigation by the Iranian Civil Aviation Organization, the approach speed along the glide path was , which was about more than the recommended speed. Corrective action could have been taken, but the engine reverser and spoiler systems were not used correctly to reduce speed.
As a result of the accident, the Air Operators Certificate of Aria Air was suspended until the investigation ended.
See also
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TAM Airlines Flight 3054
TAM Airlines Flight 3054 (JJ3054/TAM3054) was a regularly scheduled domestic passenger flight of TAM Airlines from Porto Alegre to São Paulo, Brazil. On the evening of July 17, 2007, the Airbus A320-233 serving the flight overran runway 35L a ...