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Airplane catches fire at Tehran's Mehrabad airport, all passengers evacuated safely Plane belly-lands & catches fire at Tehran’s Mehrabad airport, all passengers escape safely (VIDEO)
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A plane caught fire during landing at Tehran's Mehrabad airport on Tuesday, but emergency services managed to put out the fire without any injuries. An Iran Air medium-sized Fokker jet has caught fire after crash-landing at Tehran's Mehrabad airport on Tuesday, but emergency services managed to put out the flames and evacuate all passengers without any injuries.
The fire began after the aircraft's landing gear did not properly deploy. The pilot was forced to circle the airport while attempting to open the landing wheels, but eventually had to land the plane on its body, according to the Iranian Fars news agency. The aircraft was forced to land on its belly after its landing gear did not properly deploy, authorities said after the incident, praising the skills of the pilot who managed to land the plane in one piece. 
The incident took place at around 9p.m. and 10 ambulances were despatched to the scene, Fars said. A video presumed to be of the incident posted online showed the plane shooting sparks and flames at the moment of landing.
There were about 100 people on board the plane, but emergency services managed to evacuate all of them. “Thanks to the pilot’s skill, it landed,” Pir Hossein Kolivand, Head of Iran’s Emergency Medical Services told reporters, noting that all 33 passengers managed to escape the crash-landed plane safely.
Pir-Hossein Kolivand, the head of Iran's emergency department confirmed that there had been no injuries. As the jet was circling around Tehran's Mehrabad airport, burning out excess fuel and desperately trying to resolve the landing gear glitch, emergency crews and at least ten ambulances were waiting for the Fokker 100 to make its emergency landing. Once the plane crash-landed, emergency crews swiftly put out the fire and assisted the passengers with the evacuations. “No one was injured and everyone is in good condition,” Tehran emergency chief confirmed.
The plane was a Fokker 100 belonging to Iran Air. While initially it was reported that around 100 passengers were on board the plane en route from Qeshm Island in the Persian Gulf to Iran's capital, the head of public relations at the Civil Aviation Organization later told IRIB news agency that the flight had only 24 passengers and nine crew members.
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