A Boeing 727 IranAir aircraft has crashed in a lake close to Orumieh airport in West Azerbaijan province. The aircraft, flying from Tehran to Orumieh, was unable to land at the airport due to severe weather and crash landed nearby. Some 70 are reported to have died and many of the remaining 105 passengers and crew injured. “According to our initial reports, the plane has crashed near the village of Termani in the southern coast of Orumieh lake,” said Iran’s IRNA state news agency. “According to the reports we have received the plane was trying to land in Orumieh airport,

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