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| Date: | Wednesday 20 November 1963 |
| Time: | morning |
| Type: |  Aero Commander 500 |
| Owner/operator: | |
| Registration: | EP-AEL |
| MSN: | 846 |
| Fatalities: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 3 |
| Other fatalities: | 0 |
| Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
| Location: | near Meched -
 Iran
|
| Phase: | En route |
| Nature: | Survey |
| Departure airport: | Mehrabad |
| Meched | |
| Confidence Rating: |  Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Iranian civil photo airplane reportendly shot down by russian fighters (V.P. Pavlovskii*) over iranian territory. **also reported two passengers (***photographers) killed and the pilot survived seriously injured.
Sources:
***El Litoral 21 November 1963, p1
*Aircraft Downed During the Cold War and Thereafter
**Le Monde 22 November 1963
Revision history:
| Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
|---|---|---|
| 16-May-2015 15:35 | TB | Added |
| 28-Feb-2017 16:38 | TB | Updated [Aircraft type, Registration, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 28-Aug-2020 16:23 | TB | Updated [Time, Total occupants, Location, Phase, Nature, Departure airport, Destination airport, Source, Narrative, ] |
| 17-May-2022 21:38 | Cobar | Updated [Date, Aircraft type, Registration, Cn, ] |
| 17-May-2022 21:49 | Cobar | Updated [Date, ] |
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