Hull-loss description
Last updated: 26 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 02 FEB 2000 |
| Type: | Airbus A300B2-203 |
| Operator: | Iran Air |
| Registration: | EP-IBR |
| C/n / msn: | 061 |
| First flight: | 1979-12-21 (20 years 2 months) |
| Total airframe hrs: | 33700 |
| Cycles: | 28100 |
| Engines: | 2 General Electric CF6-50C2 |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Ground casualties: | Fatalities: 8 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Tehran-Mehrabad Airport (THR) (Iran)
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| Phase: | Pushback / towing (PBT) |
| Nature: | - |
| Departure airport: | - |
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An Iran Air Force Lockheed C-130 Hercules lost control while taking off for a training flight. The C-130 struck an empty Iran Air Airbus 300 which was being towed to a hangar. Both aircraft where destroyed by fire.
Sources:
» Tommy Maurer
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
