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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/iran-crash-crew-reported-failure.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="The wreckage of an IranAir Boeing 727 passenger plane is seen outside the city of Orumiyeh (AP/IRNA)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-iran-crash-crew-reported-failure.jpg" alt="The wreckage of an IranAir Boeing 727 passenger plane is seen outside the city of Orumiyeh (AP/IRNA)"/></a></p>
<p>The crew of an IranAir jet which crashed in a snowstorm, killing 71 people, reported a technical failure before the disaster, it has emerged.</p>
<p>The Boeing 727 operated by Iran&#8217;s national airline was carrying 106 people when it crashed and broke into several pieces as it was making an emergency landing in the city of Orumiyeh on Sunday.</p>
<p>The pilots had reported a technical failure to the control tower, the semi-official Mehr news agency said, quoting a deputy provincial governor, Ebrahim Fatholahi.</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;, state TV reported.</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.</p>
<p>The aircraft was heading from Tehran to Orumiyeh, the capital of West Azerbaijan province, a distance of about 460 miles.</p>
<p>State TV showed footage of rescue workers and farmers searching for survivors on Sunday night in parts of the wrecked plane under snowfall and in the dark.</p>
<p>Thirty-five people survived, including two crew members, said Javad Mahmoudi, another deputy governor for West Azerbaijan. He put the number of confirmed dead at 71.</p>
<p>Some of the passengers were only slightly injured and able to walk off the plane, but some had to be taken to hospital, Mr Mosayebi said.</p>
<p>Heavy snow complicated rescue efforts, said the head of the State Emergency Centre, Gholam Reza Masoumi, according to the semi-official Fars news agency. That report also said there was fog in the area.</p>
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