Taban Air Flight 6437 [SEP] point in time
Taban Air Flight 6437
Taban Air Flight 6437 was a scheduled domestic flight that crashed on landing at Mashhad, Iran on 24 January 2010. All 170 people escaped from the burning aircraft without loss of life. Most of the passengers were pilgrims returning from visiting holy sites in Iraq.
Aircraft.
The aircraft involved was a Tupolev Tu-154M. It was registered RA-85787. The aircraft first flew in 1993.
Accident.
Flight 6437 was being operated by Kolavia on behalf of Taban Air. It had originated at Abadan and
Alimohammadi, an Iranian nuclear physics professor, is killed in a bomb attack in the capital Tehran; Iran state media accuses Israel and the United States of involvement.
- January 19 – Iran rejects a deal offered by the International Atomic Energy Agency to exchange low-enriched uranium for nuclear fuel.
- January 23 – A passenger train in Iran derails, killing at least eight people and wounding at least fifteen others.
- January 24 – Taban Air Flight 6437: A flight operated by Kolavia on behalf of Taban