Incident: Aseman F100 at Isfahan on Aug 11th 2009, overheated brakes on landing
By Simon Hradecky, created Wednesday, Aug 12th 2009 15:20Z, last updated Wednesday, Aug 12th 2009 15:22Z An Iran Aseman Airlines Fokker 100, registration EP-ASJ performing flight EP-729 from Tehran Mehrabad to Isfahan (Iran), landed normally late night, the crew however requested fire trucks to attend the aircraft due to an indication of a high brakes temperature while turning off the runway. Arriving emergency services quickly put a small wheel fire out, while the doors were kept shut with passengers remaining on board, then the airplane taxied to the apron. The passengers disembarked normally.
The airport reported, that the landing was perfectly normal and apart from the high brakes temperature nothing out of the ordinary happened.
The airplane departed again on schedule the following morning.
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A wheel on an Aseman Airlines   caught fire late on Tuesday night after landing in , Iran following a flight from .

It is unclear if the aircraft landed normally or experienced a hard landing, with accounts conflicting. It is known that after landing the crew noticed that the brake temperature in one of the wheels was unusually high as they left the runway, and requested that fire crews responded before the passengers disembarked.

When emergency services arrived they discovered that the wheel was alight, and the fire was extinguished. The plane then proceeded to the , and the passengers left the jet as normal. The plane subsequently departed as scheduled the following morning.

Air accidents are common in Iran, which has an aging fleet that is poorly maintained both for civil and military operations. International sanctions have meant that new aircraft cannot be purchased. Earlier this week, a police helicopter crash killed three people and wounded three more. Last month Iran saw its worst air disaster in years when an airliner heading to Armenia crashed, killing the 168 on board. The same month saw another airliner overrun a runway at  and strike a wall, killing seventeen.