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TEHRAN: At least 30 people were killed when a passenger plane caught fire during its landing in northeastern Iran on Friday, the state news agency reported. The plane from Iran's Aria Air airline with 153 passengers on board caught fire and skidded into walls near the runway during its landing in the northeastern Iranian city of Mashhad, said the report. The accident, which happened at 18:10 local time (1340 GMT), also injured another 19 people, agency said. All survivors in the plane had been evacuated from the crash scene and the fire had been completely under control. Video aired by Iran's English-language satellite channel showed that the cockpit of the Russian-made Il-62 plane, which was travelling from Tehran to Mashhad, was totally damaged. It was the second deadly air accident involving an Iranian airliner within 10 days. On July 15, a Caspian Airlines plane crashed near the northwestern city of Qazvin, killing all 168 people on board.