AT LEAST 128 people were killed when a military transport plane clipped the top of a 10-storey apartment building in Tehran and crashed, gouging out a huge crater and igniting a major fire.

A military transport plane loaded with Iranian journalists and trying to make an emergency landing slammed into a 10-storey apartment building, ripping open the top of the structure and igniting a huge fire.

An Iranian military transport plane crashed into a 10-storey apartment building in the suburbs of the capital Tehran today, killing at least 119 people.

An Iranian military transport plane with 94 people on board crashed into a 10-storey building in the suburbs of the capital Tehran on Tuesday, state television reported.