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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/71-people-killed-in-iranair-crash.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="An IranAir plane has crashed, killing more than seventy people, according to reports" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-71-people-killed-in-iranair-crash.jpg" alt="An IranAir plane has crashed, killing more than seventy people, according to reports"/></a></p>
<p>Seventy-one people died after an IranAir passenger jet carrying 106 people crashed as it was making an emergency landing in a snowstorm in the country&#8217;s north-west.</p>
<p>The others passengers survived with light injuries after the plane broke apart on impact.</p>
<p>The pilots of the Boeing-727, operated by Iran&#8217;s national airline, attempted the emergency landing in the city of Orumiyeh after reporting a technical failure to the control tower, according to reports.</p>
<p>The nature of the technical failure was unclear. A spokesman for the Iranian civil aviation organisation, Abbas Mosayebi, said only that the plane &#8220;faced an incident&#8221;.</p>
<p>The network also said the aircraft disappeared from radar and went down in farmland after making a second attempt to land. There was no word on what might have caused the crash. The aircraft was headed from Tehran to Orumiyeh, capital of West Azerbaijan province, a distance of about 460 miles.</p>
<p>State television aired footage showing rescue workers and local farmers searching for survivors in parts of the wrecked plane under snowfall and in the darkness.</p>
<p>Thirty-five people survived, including two crew members, said Javad Mahmoudi, another deputy governor for West Azerbaijan, speaking to State TV. He put the number of confirmed dead at 71.</p>
<p>Some of the passengers were only lightly wounded and able to walk off the plane and some were taken to hospital, Mosayebi said.</p>
<p>Heavy snow complicated rescue efforts, said the head of the State Emergency Canter, Gholam Reza Masoumi.</p>
<p>The plane broke into several pieces, but there was no explosion or fire, said Mahmoud Mozaffar, head of the rescue department of Iran&#8217;s Red Crescent Society.</p>
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