RESUMEN
Background: On January 9, 2011 Iran Air Flight 277 crashed during approach to Urmia, Iran. Out of 105 passengers, 27 survived. This brief report presents a perspective of the passengers' sustained injuries
Methods: We reviewed the recorded injuries of all passengers as provided by the Legal Medicine Organization authorities. The Injury Severity Score [ISS], an anatomical scoring system, was used to provide an overall code for those who survived with multiple anatomical injuries
Results: There were a total of 96 ISS body region injuries among those who survived. Facial injuries [83%] were the most frequent injuries noted among fatalities, which was statistically significant [P=0.000]. In those who survived, injuries to the head and neck [37%] and facial [33%] regions were relatively less frequent than other anatomical regions. The most serious injuries among survivors belonged to the extremity [85%] region, particularly lower limb fractures [62%]. Differences in extremity injuries between the survivors and fatalities were not statistically significant
Conclusion: The findings of this study were similar to other studies where the most frequent serious injuries were fractures of the extremities, particularly the lower limbs