Iran Plane Crash (VIDEO, SLIDESHOW)

An Iranian plane carrying 168 people crashed today, reports state media. The plane shattered to pieces, and all on board are expected to have died. From the AP:

The impact gouged a deep trench in the dirt field, which was shown littered with smoking wreckage in footage shown on state TV. It showed a large chunk of a wing, but much of the wreckage appeared to be in small pieces, and emergency workers and witnesses picked around the shredded metal for bodies.

The Russian-made Caspian Airlines jet was heading from Tehran to the Armenian capital Yerevan near the village of Jannatabad outside the city of Qazvin, around 75 miles northwest of Tehran, state television said. It crashed at about 11:30 am, 16 minutes after taking off from Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport, TV reported.

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This image made from television broadcast by Iran's Press TV, Wednesday, July 15, 2009, they say shows a deep trench into an agricultural field caused by the impact of a crashed Iranain passenger plane a Russian-made Caspian Airlines jet that crashed Wednesday in northwest Iran, killing all 168 people on board, state media reported.

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I can't imagine the terror, nor would I want to, that these unfortunate souls experienced in the moments before impact.
May the Good Lord take them and keep them unto his bosom.
His ways are unfathomable to us but I trust that even in the most horrific tragedies, the vilest manipulations of man that His hand would heal all suffering.

In God I trust.