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At least 3 Americans are among the dead. The cause of the crash is being investigated. The NATO-led international military coalition says a helicopter crash in Afghanistan has killed 11 people including seven international service members.

An Iranian passenger plane skidded off the runway and caught fire while landing in the northern city of Mashhad on Friday.

The crash of an Iranian plane that killed 168 was probably caused by technical problems, an official says.

Investigators have recovered two of the three black boxes belonging to a Russian-made jetliner that crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran, Iran's state radio reported Thursday.

A Caspian Airlines passenger aircraft linking Tehran and Armenia crashed in Iran on Wednesday, and at least 150 people on board are feared killed, state media reported.