UPDATE 2 - All passengers, crew members killed in Iran plane crash

UPDATE WITH REVISED NUMBER OF PASSENGERS, CREW MEMBERS

By Muhammet Kursun

TEHRAN (AA) - All 167 passengers and nine crew members on an Ukrainian 737 plane that crashed near Iran's capital Tehran early Wednesday have died, according to a state official.

The death toll had earlier been announced as 170 passengers and 10 crew members, but an airport spokesperson gave the revised figures.

The Boeing 737 plane belonging to a Ukrainian airline crashed near Iran's Imam Khomeini Airport just after takeoff, Pir Hossein Kolivand, an Iranian emergency official, told state TV.

The plane was bound for Ukraine’s capital Kiev.