**A passenger plane has burst into flames on landing at an airport in northern Iran, killing 17 passengers, state media has reported.**The burning plane skidded off the runway of the airport in the city of Mashhad, said the IRNA news agency.
Provincial official Ghahraman Rashid said another 19 people had been injured in the incident and the remaining passengers were evacuated.
The crash comes 10 days after another Iranian plane crash killed 168 people.
The Aria Airlines plane involved in Friday’s blaze had flown from Tehran to Mashhad with 153 people on board.
It was reported to be a Russian-built Ilyushin aircraft.
“All the dead and injured people and passengers have been evacuated and the fire has been completely controlled,” said Mr Rashid.
Footage shown on Iran’s Press TV showed the aircraft surrounded by emergency vehicles with the cockpit almost entirely destroyed.
The cause of the crash is not yet known but state media quoted an airport official as saying there had been “a technical glitch”.
Iran has a notoriously bad air safety record.
Sanctions imposed on the country by the US mean both public and private airlines rely on ageing fleets and have trouble sourcing replacement parts, says the BBC’s Jon Leyne.
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