May 17 - The Crash That Cancelled the Opening of a New Airport

It was not a bad day weather wise on take off but things changed fast and for the worse. We are back in the year 2001 and this Faraz Qeshm Airlines Yak-40 was a short-haul trijet en route to Gorgan Airport from Tehran-Mehrabad Airport in Iran. That was the plan anyway. This day in Weather History.