TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- An airliner carrying 157 passengers skidded off a runway into a river at Tehran's Mehrabad airport on Wednesday, killing a child, state-run television reported. Several passengers were reported injured.

Television reports said the landing gear of the Saha Airlines Boeing 707 failed to open and the plane caught fire after making a hard landing, its nose and wing slamming into the runway.

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