A 30 year-old Boeing 707-300C of Iranian airline Saha slid off the runway into a watercourse on landing at Tehran's Mehrabad airport on 20 April. The aircraft was inbound from Kish island in the Persian Gulf. Gear failure reportedly caused the accident, in which one person out of the 157 on board was killed.
Source: Flight International
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