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Accident: Iran Air Boeing 727 crashes near Urmia City (West Azerbaijan - Urmiye)
An Iran Air Boeing 727 passenger jet was damaged beyond repair in an accident about 8 km from Urmia (Orumiyeh) City Airport (OMH), Iran.
There are conflicting reports about the exact number of people on board. ISNA quotes the Roads and Transportation Secretary stating there were 94 passengers and eleven crew members on board. Fars News Agency reports 93 passengers and twelve crew members. The airplane operated on flight IR277 from Tehran-Mehrabad Airport (THR) to Urmia (Orumiyeh) Airport (OMH). It left Tehran at 18:15, after a delay of over two hours due to severe weather at the destination.
Latest media reports indicate that 77 people were killed, 26 people were injured and two missing.
According to local aviation sources in Iran, the airplane involved in the accident was EP-IRP. This has not yet been confirmed by CAO officials.
The Deputy Minister of Roads and Transportation indicated that the accident occurred during a forced landing outside the airport.
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West Azerbaijan - Winter in the Urmia city
Salmās or Salamas (farsi: سلماس,Turkish language: Salmas, سالماس، دیلمقان), also Shahpur, Dīlman, and Dīlmagān, is a city in West Azarbaijan Province of Iran. The town is of Turkish (Azerbaijanian Turks) origin, according to the Arabic geographer Mukadassi who visited Salmas in the 10th century In a 2006 census, the city had a population of 79,560. It is the administrative seat of Salmas County and Salmas Central District.
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Lake Urmia (farsi: دریاچه ارومیه Daryâcheh-ye Orumiyeh;Turkish: اورمو گولو , اورمیه گولو, is a salt lake in northwestern Iran, near Turkey. The lake is between the provinces of East Azerbaijan and West Azerbaijan, west of the southern portion of the similarly shaped Caspian Sea. It is the largest lake in the Middle East, and the third largest salt water lake on earth, with a surface area of approximately 5,200 km² (2,000 mile²), 140 km (87 miles) length, 55 km (34 miles) width, and 16 m (52 ft) depth.The lake is named after the provincial capital city of Urmia, originally a Sumerian name meaning city of Culture...It was called Lake Rezaiyeh (farsi: دریاچه رضائیه) in the early 1930s after Reza Shah Pahlavi, but the lake was renamed 'Urmia' in the late 1970s.
Urmia City
Urmia or Orumieh (farsi: ارومیه; Turkish: اورمو / اورمیه – Urumiyə / Urmiye / Urmu), during the majority of the Pahlavi Dynasty [1925–1979] called farsi: رضائیه, Rezaiyeh), is a city in Northwestern Iran and the capital of West Azerbaijan Province. The city lies on an altitude of 1,330 m above sea level on the Shahar Chay river (City River). Urmia is the 10th most populated city in Iran with a population of about 600,000. Urmia is the 10th populated city in iran and 2nd of Azerbaijanian Turks provinces after Tabriz. Urmia is the trade center for a fertile agricultural region where fruit (Specially Apple and Grape) and Tobacco are grown.An important town by the 9th cent. Urmia was seized by the Oghuz Turks (11th cent.), sacked by the Seljuk Turks (1184), and later occupied a number of times by the Ottoman Turks.The population of Urmia is predominantly Azerbaijanian Turks (over 85-90%), but with Kurdish,Assyrian and Armenian minorities.
