The C-130 aircraft had just taken off from the nearby Mehrabad Airport in Roadto the southern port of Bandar Abbas.It seems that, The plane experienced a technical problem and was returning to the airport for an emergency landing when it hit the building, state-run television said, discounting sabotage or terrorism.
The C-130 is built by Lockheed and has four turboprop engines.
The plane may have been sold to the Iranian air force when the United States had
close relations with the Iranian monarch, Shah Reza Pahlavi, before the Islamic
revolution in 1979.In April, an Iranian military Boeing 707 with 157 people
aboard skidded off a runway at Tehran airport and caught fire, killing three
people. In 2003, a Russian-made Ilyushin-76 carrying members of the elite Revolutionary Guards crashed in the mountains of southeastern Iran' , killing
302 people. In 2002, a Ukrainian-built aircraft carrying aerospace scientists
crashed in central Iran, killing all 44 people aboard. And in 1988, an Iran Air
A300 Airbus was shot down by the USS Vincennes over the Persian Gulf, killing
290.[More]
