On July 15, 2009 (May 23 of the 2009 lunar calendar), an Iranian Caspian Airlines Tu-154 passenger plane crashed. On July 15, 2009, an Iranian Caspian Airlines Tu-154 passenger plane crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran, the capital of Iran, killing all 153 passengers and 15 crew members on board. Among the 153 passengers on board were 147 Iranians, 4 Armenians and 2 Georgians. Staff at Khomeini Airport in the Iranian capital Tehran said there were no China passengers on the crashed passenger plane. It is reported that the crashed plane was originally scheduled to fly from Tehran to Yerevan, the capital of Armenia. The plane crashed near Qazvin Province in Iran 16 minutes after taking off at 11:33 am local time (15:03 Beijing time). A piece of aircraft wreckage photographed at the crash site near Qazvin, Iran