Witnesses say the plane's tail was on fire before it went down. It was the latest in a string of deadly crashes in recent years that have highlighted Iran's difficulties in maintaining its aging ...

Iran Air Flight 655, an Airbus A300 with 290 people on board, was blown from the skies by a missile fired from the guided-missile cruiser USS Vincennes as it flew over the Persian Gulf from Iran ...

Iran’s Civil Aviation Organisation ... The twinjet continued to bounce and struck its tail. Investigators state that the A300 suffered aft fuselage skin damage. As an immediate measure pilots ...

An Iran Air A300-600 made an emergency landing at Tehran airport shortly following takeoff after its pilots spotted an engine fire alert, FARS news agency reported on Sunday. The aircraft ...

However, the notable expectation is Iran, where all of the world's remaining operational passenger A300-600s can be found today. International sanctions on Iran are likely the only thing keeping ...

Video images of the runway run-off by an Iran Air Airbus A300-600 at Stockholm Arlanda indicate that the aircraft suffered a technical problem with its left-hand engine shortly after starting its ...

The U.S. claimed that the crew incorrectly identified the Iranian Airbus A300 as a warplane while the airliner was making IFF squawks in Mode III (not Mode II used by Iranian military planes), a ...

Engineering and maintenance specialists of the Islamic Republic of Iran airlines, using their experience and capabilities, are performing ‘S Check’ on an Airbus A300-600. The Airbus A300-600 aircraft ...

That has led to Iran becoming home to the largest A300 passenger aircraft fleet, with 21 still flying in the country, according to Airbus. There are 38 remaining operators of the A300, and the in ...