page_title: 2019 Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crash
section_title: Accident
hierarchical_section_title: 2019 Saha Airlines Boeing 707 crash / Accident
caption_attribution_description: فارسی: یک فروند هواپیمای باربری ۷۰۷ حامل گوشت از مبدا بیشکک کشور قرقیزستان، اقدام به فرود اضطراری در فرودگاه فتح البرز کرده که در هنگام فرود از باند خارج و پس از برخورد با دیوار انتهایی باند دچار آتش سوزی شد.
context_page_description: On 14 January 2019, a Boeing 707 operated by Saha Airlines on a cargo flight crashed at Fath Air Base, near Karaj, Alborz Province in Iran. Fifteen of the sixteen people on board were killed. This aircraft was also the last civil Boeing 707 in operation.
context_section_description: The aircraft was on an international cargo flight carrying meat from Manas International Airport in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, to Payam International Airport in Karaj, Iran, but the flight crew actually landed at Fath Air Base. The crew probably mistook Fath Air Base's runway with the much longer Payam International Airport runway, as the two runways are just a few kilometres apart, and on an almost identical alignment. A 707 generally requires a runway length more than 2,500 m (8,200 ft), but the runway at Fath Air Base is only 1,300 metres (4,300 ft). Poor weather conditions were also reported.
  The aircraft overran the runway, crashed through a wall, and came to rest after colliding with a house in the neighbourhood of Farrokhabad, Fardis County, Alborz Province. The houses involved were empty at the time of the crash, and no one on the ground was injured. Following the crash, a fire developed. Early reports gave the number of people on board as either 16 or 17 (one a woman), all but one of whom died. The sole survivor was Farshad Mahdavinejad, the aircraft's flight engineer, who was taken to Shariati Hospital in a critical condition.
  In a possibly related incident from 16 November 2018, a Taban Airlines MD-88 carrying 155 people twice attempted to land on this runway, mistaking it for the longer 3,659 m (12,005 ft) Payam runway, which is nearly in line.  On its first approach, the plane reached an altitude of 1 m (3.3 ft) before aborting the attempt, but eventually continued on for a safe landing at Payam after an aborted second attempt at Fath.
caption: Tail wreckage of EP-CPP
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