At least 128 dead, 90 injured after plane hits building in Tehran
[KDR: So a raging inferno from jet fuel didn't bring down this building. Makes you wonder if there was something else happening on 9-11.
This structure may be a concrete instead of steel frame building but either way we should get a hold of the Iranian engineers that built a structure that can withstand an airplane crash.
One other piece of evidence that is interesting about this story is that a wing was unable to penetrate the building, again unlike 9-11.
Just in case you believe that fire brought down the twin towers and WTC building 7 on 9-11 here is a picture from the Windsor Building in Madrid which burned for 2 days and just like every other steel building did not collapse from fire.]
At least 128 people are dead and at least another 90 injured after an Iranian military transport plane crashed Tuesday into a 10-storey apartment building in Tehran.
Iranian state radio says all 94 people on board the plane died, including 84 passengers and 10 crew. At least 34 people on the ground were also killed.
Another 90 people have been injured, the state radio said.
The plane, which was trying to make an emergency landing, smashed a hole in the top of the building as it crashed. The building was engulfed in flames.
As well, wreckage hit a nearby gas station and debris landed on cars.
"I felt the heat of the fire caused by the crash," Reza Sadeqi, who saw the plane hit the building, told the Associated Press.
'Like an earthquake'
"It was like an earthquake," she said.
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"The force of the crash threw me about three metres inside my shop."
People living in the building were seen fleeing the complex, one of a series of high rises in Tehran's Azari district, which is densely populated.
The official news agency, IRNA, says 10 bodies had been removed from the crash site.
"Many others have been taken to hospital," Angus McDowall Global Radio News told CBC News from Tehran.
"Helicopters are moving in and out of the area," he said.
Angry crowd
Meanwhile, a large, angry crowd has gathered as people try to get near the crash site to check on relatives and friends living in the area.
The crowd is angry, McDowall said. "They obviously want to get in."
But, he said, the crowd is being pushed back by police.
Iason Sowden of Global Radio News in Tehran told CBC News the scene was one of complete chaos, and that the flames were hampering rescue efforts.
Sowden also said that one wing of the plane was lying in front of the building.
It's not yet known what caused the crash which happened at around 2:10 p.m. local time in Tehran. The plane, a C-130 military transport, crashed shortly after taking off from the city's Mehrabad airport.
IRNA said many of those on board the plane were Iranian journalists who were heading to the southern city of Bandar Abbas cover a military manoeuvre.
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