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.