Taban Air Emergency Landing
What: Taban Air Tupolev TU-154M en route from Mashhad to Kish Island in the Persian Gulf
Where: emergency landing in Mashhad
When: August 7 2009
Who: 150 passengers
Why: 40 minutes into the flight, the plane had a technical “glitch” (electrical problems affecting several systems) forcing the pilot to declare an emergency.
George’s Point of View
This incident follows the death of 17 and the injury of 30 in Mashhad on July 24, 2009. At that time, an Ilyushin jet with skidded off the runway and struck a wall.
And a little more than a week before that, on Wednesday July 15 a Tu-154M went down 16 minutes after takeoff from Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran.
No airline named “Taban Air” is listed under the IATA membership website.
Although this flight did land without death or injury, it appears that Tehran has some airline safety issues to work out.