Status: Preliminary
Date: 01 SEP 2006
Time: ca 13:45
Type: Tupolev 154M
Operator: Iran Air Tours
Registration: EP-MCF
C/n / msn: 88A788
First flight: 1988
Engines: 3 Soloviev D-30KU-154-II
Crew: Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 11
Passengers: Fatalities: 28 / Occupants: 137
Total: Fatalities: 28 / Occupants: 148
Airplane damage: Written off
Location: Mashad Airport (MHD) (Iran)
Phase: Landing
Nature: Domestic Scheduled Passenger
Departure airport: Bandar Abbas Airport (BND/OIKB), Iran
Destination airport: Mashad Airport (MHD/OIMM), Iran
Flightnumber: 945
Narrative:
The Tupolev suffered a mishap (some reports say a nose gear tyre burst) while landing on runway 14L. The airplane swerved and caught fire.

Sources:
Reuters
Azeri president sends condolences over plane crash in Iran (IRNA, 2-9-2006)
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AIRCRAFT PROFILE TUPOLEV 154
* Last fatal hull-loss accident: 22 AUG 2006 Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise, near Donetsk, Ukraine - 170 fatalities
* Total number of hull-losses: 62 losses (55 accidents, 5 criminal occurrences, 2 other occurrences [ground fire])
* 25th worst Tu-154 accident
* Survival rate for all fatal Tu-154 accidents: on average 27,8% of all occupants survived fatal accidents
* history of this airplane (source: Soviet Transports):
   - CCCP-85650 Aeroflot International (delivered 1988)
   - RA-85650 Aeroflot International (new registration OCT 1992)
   - RA-85650 Vnukovo ARZ 400 (2000)
   - HA-LCX Pannon Airlines (MAY 2000)
   - LZ-LCI Bulgarian Air Charter (2002)
   - RA-85650 Airlines 400 (2004)
   - EP-MCF Iran Air Tours (2005)
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AIRPORT PROFILE MASHAD
* ICAO/IATA designators: OIMM / MHD
* Latitude: 36° 14' 06.70" N  / 059° 38' 27.50" E 
* Elevation: 3263 ft/ 995 m
* Runway: 14R/32L (3925 x 45 meters, asphalt, no ILS)
   Runway: 14L/32R (3811 x 45 meters, asphalt, ILS)
* Current OIMM NOTAMS: https://www.notams.jcs.mil/distribution/query.html?locid=&textType=report&locidl=OIMM
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OPERATOR PROFILE IRAN AIR TOURS
A wholly government owned airline operating scheduled domestic flights and charter flights to a.o. Europe
* started operations: 1990
* web site: http:// www.iranairtours .com
* Third airliner hull-loss accident
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COUNTRY PROFILE IRAN
* Last fatal civil hull-loss accident: 20 APR 2005 Saha Air Boeing 707, at Tehran-Mehrabad Airport - 3 fatalities
* 13th worst hull loss accident
* The country is not yet rated in FAA's International Aviation Safety Assessment Program (IASA)