Accident
On March 15, 1974, Sterling Airways Flight 901 was involved in an aviation accident near Tehran, Iran. The aircraft crashed and a fire ensued, resulting in 15 fatalities reported. Sterling Airways operated the flight.
Dataset Recording
The accident is documented in the Wikidata aviation-safety dataset, which catalogs over three thousand aircraft accidents and aviation occurrences. This dataset covers the entire history of powered and unpowered flight, including incidents from early ballooning to modern jetliners. Researchers cross-reference such records with primary investigative sources to analyze historical safety trends and identify recurring contributing factors across different eras of aviation.