Editing Iran Air (section)

===Overview===
Before the two companies merged in 1962 to form Iran Air, Iranian Airways and Persian Air Services had several aircraft [[hull loss]]es. Iranian Airways lost six Douglas DC-3s in crashes and a fire between 1949 and 1959;<ref>{{ASN accident|title=Douglas C-47B-20-DK (DC-3) EP-ACI |id=19490106-1 |accessdate=11 January 2017}}</ref><ref name=ASN19500914-1/><ref>{{ASN accident|title=Douglas C-47A-25-DK (DC-3) EP-AAJ |id=19501201-0 |accessdate=11 January 2017}}</ref><ref name=ASN19521225-0/><ref>{{ASN accident|title=Douglas C-47A-20-DK (DC-3) EP-ACV |id=19530630-0 |accessdate=11 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{ASN accident|title=Douglas C-47A-20-DL (DC-3) EP-ACL |id=19521225-0 |accessdate=11 January 2017}}</ref> and one of its Douglas DC-4s was shot down in 1961;<ref>{{ASN accident|title=Douglas DC-4 EP-ADK |id=19610804-0 |accessdate=11 January 2017}}</ref> while Persian Air Services lost three [[Avro York]]s in crashes and a maintenance accident between 1955 and 1959.<ref>{{ASN accident|title=Avro 685 York C.1 EP-ADA |id=19550914-0 |accessdate=11 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{ASN accident|title=Avro 685 York C.1 EP-ADB |id=19560917-0 |accessdate=11 January 2017}}</ref><ref>{{ASN accident|title=Avro 685 York C.1 EP-ADE |id=19590715-0 |accessdate=11 January 2017}}</ref> Since 1962, Iran Air has had more than a dozen aircraft hull losses in crashes and the shooting-down of [[Iran Air Flight 655]]; the airline has also experienced twenty hijacking incidents on its aircraft.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/dblist.php?sorteer=datekey_desc&kind=%&cat=%&page=1&field=Operatorkey&var=5964 |title=Iran Air occurrences |website=Aviation Safety Network |publisher=Flight Safety Foundation |access-date=11 January 2017}}</ref>

====Incidents====
* On 14 September 1950, an Iranian Airways [[Douglas DC-3]], registration EP-AAG, bound for Saudi Arabia, crashed shortly after taking off from [[Tehran Mehrabad International Airport]]. The nine people on board, all employees of the airline, were killed.<ref name=ASN19500914-1>{{ASN accident|title=Douglas C-47A-30-DL (DC-3) EP-AAG |id=19500914-1 |accessdate=28 December 2016 }}</ref>
* On 25 December 1952, an Iranian Airways Douglas DC-3 with twenty-one passengers and a crew of four on board crashed while on approach to Tehran airport. There was one survivor.<ref name=ASN19521225-0>{{ASN accident|title=Douglas C-47A-35-DL (DC-3) EP-ACJ |id=19521225-0 |accessdate=4 January 2017}}</ref>
* On the evening of 21 January 1980, a Boeing 727-100 operating as [[Iran Air Flight 291]] hit high ground north of Tehran in a snowstorm during its landing approach to Tehran's Mehrabad Airport, after the pilot failed to follow the correct path to the runway. All 128 passengers and crew on board were killed.<ref name="asn22" />
* On 3 July 1988, [[Iran Air Flight 655]] was flying over the [[Persian Gulf]] on its way to [[Dubai]] from [[Bandar Abbas]]. According to the U.S. version of events, the crew of the United States Navy cruiser {{USS|Vincennes|CG-49|6}} mistook the airliner for an Iranian Air Force [[Grumman F-14 Tomcat]] jet fighter and the cruiser shot the airliner down with a missile, killing all 16 crew and 274 passengers. Iran maintains it was an intentional act of barbarism.<ref>[[International Court of Justice]]. [http://www.icj-cij.org/icjwww/icases/iirus/iirus_ipleadings/iirus_ipleadings_19900724_MemorialIran_Part4B.pdf Aerial Incident of 3 July 1988 (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America) — Iranian submission: Part IV B, The shooting down of flight IR 655] {{dead link|date=November 2013}}, para. 4.52–4.53. Accessed 2007-01-20.</ref>
* On 9 June 1996 a Boeing 727-200 on a [[Flight training|pilot training]] flight landed on its belly at Rasht Airport on its fifteenth [[touch-and-go landing]] in a series, after the crew forgot to extend the [[landing gear]]. The aircraft slid for more than {{convert|2|km|mi}} along the runway; instead of allowing the aircraft to stop, the crew lifted off again and circled the airport to return for a landing with the gear extended. While circling, a fire broke out in the aircraft's rear fuselage, damaging its flight control systems. As the aircraft neared the ground it rolled left, the wing hit the ground, and the aircraft crashed in a field, killing four of the seven crewmembers on board.<ref>{{ASN accident|title=Iran Air Boeing 727-286 EP-IRU |id=19960609-3 |accessdate=4 January 2017}}</ref>
* On 2 February 2000, a [[Lockheed C-130 Hercules]] owned by the [[Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force|Iranian Air Force]] lost control and veered off the runway, striking an [[Airbus A300|Airbus A300B2-203]] owned by Iran Air, killing eight people. Both aircraft were [[Hull loss|written off]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Other Airbus A300B2-203 EP-IBR, Wednesday 2 February 2000 |url=https://asn.flightsafety.org/asndb/323575 |access-date=2024-08-14 |website=asn.flightsafety.org}}</ref>
* On 2 January 2008, Iran Air [[Fokker 100]] EP-IDB carrying 100 passengers skidded off the runway after its wing caught fire, when taking off for a domestic flight to [[Shiraz International Airport]] from [[Mehrabad Airport]]. No one was injured in the accident, which happened amid heavy snowfall at the airport.<ref name="AFP">{{cite web|url=http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iCZFq3IgeJJyAjQSULFgE7WMaVQA|title=Iran Air plane skids off runway, passengers safe|publisher=[[Agence France-Presse|AFP]]|access-date=2008-01-05|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080306040837/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iCZFq3IgeJJyAjQSULFgE7WMaVQA|archive-date=2008-03-06}}</ref> The aircraft was written off.<ref>{{Cite web |title=ASN Aircraft accident Fokker 100 EP-IDB Tehran-Mehrabad Airport (THR) |url=http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20080102-1 |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=aviation-safety.net}}</ref>
* On 9 January 2011 [[Iran Air Flight 277]], a Boeing 727-200 (registration: EP-IRP) originating from Tehran, crashed near its destination city of Orumiyeh, {{convert|460|mi|km|order=flip}} northwest of Tehran, during an attempted [[go-around]] in poor weather. It was carrying 105 people, of whom at least 78 were killed.<ref name=BBC>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12147872|title=Iran Passenger Plane "Crashes" Near Orumiyeh|publisher=BBC World News|access-date=9 January 2010}}</ref>
* On 18 October 2011, a Boeing 727-200 (registration: EP-IRR) operating a flight from Moscow as [[Iran Air Flight 742|Flight 742]] landed with the nose landing gear jammed in the retracted position at [[Mehrabad International Airport]]. All 113 occupants on board survived without incident.