FNA - Several passengers were injured after two hostile US army fighter jets came close to an Iranian passenger plane over the Syrian airspace, forcing the pilot to make a sudden change of direction and altitude to avoid a collision. Initial reports said two Israeli fighter jets approached a Mahan Air Tehran-Beirut flight over the Syrian sky in ...

Reuters - An Iranian passenger plane that was approached by U.S. fighter jets in Syrian airspace has landed back in Tehran, the Fars news agency reported on Friday. The approach of the fighter jets caused the pilot of the passenger plane to change altitude quickly which injured several passengers, the official IRIB news agency reported. Reporting ...

MNA An official with the Iranian Civil Aviation Organization said that the body has urged the ICAO to address the dangerous actions of the United States against airliners in the region. The flight was being conducted according to international regulations in a pre-determined commercial route and the behavior of US aircraft was dangerous; we have ...

Tasnim Iranian Transport and Urban Development Minister Mohammad Eslami called the recent dangerous and aggressive maneuvering by two US warplanes close to an Iranian airliner over Syria an act of terror. The move by the US jets was an act of terror and Iran Civil Aviation Organization will legally pursue the issue, Eslami told Tasnim on Friday ...

IRNA Mahan Air said on Friday that 12 passengers and crew of the flight underwent medical procedure in Beirut hospital due to injuries they suffered in the quick movement of the plane to escape the approaching US military jets. In its statement which was released in the wake of the US military jets aggression on routine flight 1152 on Thursday,...

Press TV - Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has denounced the United States for harassing a scheduled Iranian civil airliner over Syria and endangering the lives of civilians, saying the American government must be reined in to prevent more disasters. Zarif made the remark in a post on his official Twitter account on Friday after the ...