The disasters below include accidents, a bombing and military shootdowns; they are not all crashes in the same sense. They are arranged from fewer to more deaths so the final entry is the deadliest, counting victims on the ground where applicable.
Fatality figures can vary slightly between historical accounts, particularly when ground victims are included. The descriptions distinguish what happened from what investigators or authorities concluded, and treat those affected with respect.
7Iranian military Ilyushin Il-76 crash
On 19 February 2003, an Iranian military Ilyushin Il-76 crashed in mountainous terrain near Kerman, in southeastern Iran. The aircraft was carrying members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on a domestic flight.
Reports commonly give 275 fatalities. The remote crash site and the limited detail available in many summaries make this entry particularly worth checking against authoritative aviation and historical records.
