(Press TV website) - The private Iranian airline, Taban Air, decides to ground three of its Russian-made Topolov passenger planes and replace them with medium range Boeing airliners.

“A Topolov passenger aircraft has already been grounded and two others are set to be taken out of service as part of attempts to refurbish the Taban Air fleet,” Managing Director of the airline, Asghar Abdullahpour, said on Saturday.

The decision comes after a Taban Air flight, carrying 157 people and 13 crewmembers, crashed and caught fire at Mashhad International Airport in northeastern Iran on January 24. As many 46 people sustained injuries in the incident.

The airliner on a scheduled flight from Abadan, Iran, was a Russian-built Tupolev Tu-154.