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| Plane Crash Lands in Iran, Injuring Dozens | |
| 2010-01-24 | |
| TEHRAN, Iran -- A Russian-made Iranian passenger plane carrying 157 passengers and 13 crew crash landed in northeastern Iran Sunday injuring at least 46 people, state television reported. The broadcast said no one was killed in the accident. The TV said the private Taban Air plane caught fire upon landing at Mashhad airport at 07:20 local time (03:40 GMT). The injured have been taken to hospitals in Mashhad, the report added. It said plane has been seriously damaged. Iran has about a dozen Soviet-built Tu-154 airliners. Iran has seen numerous crashes in recent years and its airlines have been plagued by maintenance problems. In part, Iranian carriers are chronically cashed-strapped and unable to buy new planes. Iranian officials often blame U.S. sanctions that prevent it from updating American aircraft bought before the 1979 Islamic revolution and make it difficult to get European spare parts or planes as well.
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| Posted by:Sherry |
| #5 "Plane Crash, Lands in Iran, injuring dozens" or "Plane Crash-lands in Iran, injuring dozens" Pardon, but I'm in a mood today. I read the headline as the first illustrates, scratching my head. Editors & copywriters sometimes deserve to be waterboarded, such as the case when "SUV kills pedestrian" or "SUV plunges into canal, killing 7 people inside." (Damned suicidal SUVs) Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/warner-todd-huston/2007/11/19/dont-you-hate-it-when-suvs-kill-people-ap-sure-does#ixzz0dYndPBeq ...in which case the following headline makes more sense for the above article: "Russian plane crashes on landing in Iran; all survive" ...as survivors of a Russian-manufatured plane involved in a crash are usually unlikely to view blue sky again without 'Parfum d'embalmment' & open casket. |
| Posted by: logi_cal 2010-01-24 14:37 |
| #4 Don't they have machine shops and master mechanics? Yeah. But they're all in LA... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-01-24 12:25 |
| #3 One would think Russian airliner parts are cheap and plentiful just by picking at the thousands of derelicts sitting on airport tarmacs all across the FSU. Perhaps some imam forgot the bless that aircraft (for a fee) so allan did not smile down upon it. |
| Posted by: ed 2010-01-24 12:20 |
| #2 Don't they have machine shops and master mechanics? Apparently they've been given higher priority taks. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2010-01-24 11:33 |
| #1 Insh'Allah maintenance strikes again.... |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2010-01-24 11:11 |