The plane that crashed shortly after takeoff from the Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran was a Boeing 737, according to an airport official.

The plane likely crashed due to technical difficulties, state media quoted Ali Khahshani, a senior public relations official at the airport, as saying.

The flight from Ukraine International Airlines was bound for the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.

A spokesman for Iran's emergency services, Mojtaba Khaledi, said that ambulances were dispatched to the crash site south of Tehran.

Source: Washington Post