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Iranian airliner carrying 144 skids onto major highway in crash landing

By Zach Halaschak
Published January 27, 2020 4:12pm ET
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Iranian airliner carrying 144 skids onto major highway in crash landing
An Iranian passenger plane sits on a road outside Mahshahr airport after skidding off the runway, in southwestern city of Mahshahr, Iran, Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. An Iranian passenger airliner carrying some 150 passengers skidded off the runway and into a street next to the airport in the southern city of Mahshahr on Monday, after apparently losing its landing gear in a hard landing. | (Mohammad Zarei/AP)

An Iranian jet carrying 144 people skidded onto a major highway after crash landing.

Two people were injured in the Monday incident that occurred in Mahshahr, a city in Iran’s southwestern Khuzestan province. Photos and videos from the scene showed a large jet sitting in the middle of a normally busy highway.

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