An Iran Air Avions de Transport Regional ATR-72-212A, registration EP-ITD performing flight IR-3332 from Rasht to Tehran Mehrabad (Iran) with 63 passengers and 8 crew, landed on Mehrabad's runway 29L at 15:42L (11:12Z) but landed hard and struck its tail onto the runway surface. The aircraft rolled out without further incident and taxied to the apron, where passengers disembarked normally.

Iran's CAO reported the occurrence was preliminarily rated an incident, an investigation has been opened. The damage is being assessed with the assistance by the aircraft manufacturer to correctly rate the occurrence. The cockpit was staffed by a pilot in training, a training captain and a safety first officer. The pilot in training was pilot flying. The training captain reported the approach was fully stabilized until about 50 feet AGL, then the nose of the aircraft pitched down and a high rate of descent developed, the training captain intervened and attempted to correct, however, could not prevent the hard touch down and tail strike.