Plane crashes on Tehran-Yerevan flight, 168 presumed dead

by Armenian Reporter staff

Published: Wednesday July 15, 2009

Family members and friends hoped not to find the names of their loved ones on flight manifests posted at Yerevan's Zvartnots International Airport after an airplane headed there from Tehran crashed, July 15, 2009.  . Hayk Badalian / Photolure

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Yerevan - An airplane bound for Yerevan from Tehran carrying 168 people crashed on July 15. Everyone on board is presumed dead.

The airplane, a Russian-made Tupolev 154, operated by Caspian Airlines, plane crashed near the Iranian city of Ghazvin at about 11:30 a.m. local time

"On board the plane there were 151 adults, 2 children, and 15 crew members," Caspian Airline's representative in Yerevan, Arlen Davudyan, told Reuters at Yerevan's Zvartnots International Airport.

Among the passengers was Dr. Levon Davidian, a psychiatrist who has served as a member of Iran's parliament, representing the Armenian communities of the northern part of Iran.

Relatives and friends gathered at Yerevan airport, where a notice on a wall listed people who were on board. Health brigades treated relatives for shock and heart problems.

The crash gouged a trench more than 10 feet deep in a field near the village of Jannatabad, the New York Times reported, quoting state news agencies.

According to Armenia's civil aviation authorities, passengers included 4 citizens of Armenia. But they also included at least 3 dozen ethnic Armenians.

Eight members of Iran's national youth judo team, along with two coaches and a delegation chief, were on the flight, on their way to train with the Armenian judo team and attend a competition in Hungary in August, the semi-official Iranian Labor News Agency said.

The following is our transliteration of the names on the flight manifest, which were released in Farsi:

1. Hamid Reza Abdullahzadeh
2. Aram Ahmadi Nureh
3. Anet Azhang
4. Ghassem Akbari
5. Mariam Alayi
6. S. Alavi Shirkho
7. Ahmad Ali Mohammadi
8. Arash Ali Mohammadi
9. Ali Akbar Ali Mohammadi
10. Kaveh Ali Mohammadi
11. Manizheh Alirezayi
12. Mozhdeh Alirezayi
13. Anahita Amini Alavi
14. Ali Amiri
15. Nana Antashian
16. Edvin Assadurian
17. Arshavir Avakian
18. Azad Avanessian
19. Massib Azizollahi
20. Anush Babumian
21. Yahya Bahrami
22. Ali Bahrami
23. Hossein Bani
24. Mahdi Barforushan
25. S. Beheshtinezhad
26. Anna Boghossian
27. Roya Bahluli
28. Levon Davidian
29. Vahid Reza Dehghani Niya
30. Martik Deravanessian
31. Vahid Abrahamidulu
32. Dariush Ahia
33. Nayiri Stepanian
34. Shogher Stepanian
35. Jamshid Fa[r]amarzpour
36. Mortez[ah] Fallahzadeh
37. Rashid Farajzadeh
38. Mohsen Fazayeli
39. Melin Garanian [Melineh Karanian]
40. Ms. F. Ghaffuri Siyah
41. Ali Ghazavati
42. Neda Ghollamhosseini
43. Hossein Gholubi
44. Hasm[i]k Gheloyan Haft
45. Karabed Bokasian
46. Givi Chkadua
47. Abbas Neeknam
48. Natalia Nikonova
49. Mohsen Noruzpour
50. Nasser Nasrati
51. Ebrahim Pidarsi
52. Hamaspiur Puladi Ghaleh
53. Alireza Pourghorbani
54. Ms. M. Pourmoghadam
55. Mr. V. Raffiyi Mansour
56. Mahdi Reyhani
57. Mostafa Sabbaghi
58. Shahnam Sabouri
59. Davood Salarian
60. Areen Salehi
61. Saeed Salehi
62. F. Samarghandi
63. Z. Samarghandi
64. Mohammad Hossein Sanayi
65. Armen Sarkisian
66. Va[h]e Sarkisian
67. Armen Sarkisian [same name twice]
68. Mr. S. Seyed Alipour
69. Masoumeh Shadkho
70. Yurik Shahbazian
71. Ms. Shahmoradian
72. Khachatur Simonian
73. Khachik
74. Ara Seeroyan
75. Ameen Soleimanifar
76. Ali Soltan Mohammadi
77. Zarmineh Suk[i]assian
78. Vartanush Tahmassian
79. Lusik Tarminian [Tarbinian?]
80. Ramon Taroyan
81. Kristin Terovanesi
82. Anahita Terovanesi
83. Nasser Teymouri
84. Tadeh Timash
85. Siyavash Vatanparast
86. Yaghubian
87. R. Yaghubian
88. [blank]
89. Abdolreza Yamini
90. Reza Yussefi
91. Alla Zaran
92. Hasam Zaran
93. Terlan Zaran
94. Mr. M. Zarif Mahmoud
95. Mr. A. Zabardast
96. Iman Zeenivand
97. Artur Grigorian
98. Mohammad Haddadi
99. Areen Hadikhan
100. M. Hadikhan [or Rehadikhan]
101. Gholamreza Haghparast
102. Assadollah Haghparast
103. Hassan Hassanzadeh
104. Plorik Hayrupeto
105. Seyed Mahdi Hosseini
106. Mohammad Eezadju
107. Javad Jaffari
108. Yaghub Jaffari
109. Majeed Jalali
110. Vahid Javanbakhsh
111. Hamid Javanbakhsh
112. Seyed Mohammad Jazayi
113. Seyed Shayan Jazayi
114. Seyed Raham Jazayi
115. Hamid Reza Kakavandi
116. Talin Karateepan [Karapetian?]
117. Nadia Kareemi
118. Nilufar Kareemi
119. Nima Karimi
120. Hossein Karimi
121. S. Kashani Ghareh
122. Ahmad Kermani
123. Amin Khabazkar
124. Edvard Khachik
125. Hossein Khaninzadeh
126. Ali Kheirat Eerun
127. Ahmadreza Kharadi
128. Homa Khungarm Kho
129. Alireza Lashgari
130. Roya Lotfifard
131. Mr. A. Mahmoudizadeh
132. Nairi Malian
133. Arshavir Manaserian
134. Karin Margarian
135. Masis Mattian Kunara
136. Ani Melkum Abkar
137. Areen Melkum Abkar
138. Maghdad Moalami
139. Ali Mahdes
140. Mr. H. Mohammadi
141. Gholamreza Mohammadi
142. Fatemeh Mohamad Safa
143. Babak Mokhtari
144. Mr. T. Moradian Haji
145. Mr. M. Mozaffari
146. Nazila Nayim
147. Sadegh Najafi Lahiji
148. Alvard Navasartian
149. Ali Nazri Shakeeb
150. Ashot Nersessian
151. Hadi Niyaghi
152. Sayid Farhad Niyavarani
153. Saeed Rasuli

The names of the 15 crew members were not released with this list. They included two citizens of Armenia, 42-year-old Grigor Barsegyan and 43-year-old Surik Soghomonyan.