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2003-02-19 Iran

Over 270 people killed in Iranian military plane crash

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Posted by Steve 2003-02-19 02:50 pm|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 If we were like them, we would say that this is a sure sign of the will of Allah...who knows...maybe..

Posted by Poitiers 2003-02-19 15:25:36|| 2003-02-19 15:25:36|| Front Page Top

#2 Shoulda stuck with the Tupolevs...

Posted by mojo 2003-02-19 15:28:46|| 2003-02-19 15:28:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Maybe not:
Wednesday's crash was the latest in a string of air disasters in Iran involving mostly Russian-built airliners. A Ukrainian An-140 aircraft flew into a mountainside Dec. 23, 2002, while preparing to land at an airport near the central city of Isfahan, killing all the estimated 46 scientists aboard. In February 2002, the Russian-made Tupolev Tu-154 airliner, carrying 119 people, smashed into snow-covered mountains not far from its destination of Khorramabad, 230 miles southwest of Tehran.

Posted by Steve 2003-02-19 15:35:14|| 2003-02-19 15:35:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Fly the friendly skies of Iran. Well, maybe not...

Posted by Patrick Phillips 2003-02-19 15:44:45|| 2003-02-19 15:44:45|| Front Page Top

#5 Planes fly successfully on physics, money, good airmenship, and maintenance, not mullahs.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2003-02-19 16:35:13|| 2003-02-19 16:35:13|| Front Page Top

#6 Should of known this was coming:
A military plane crash in mountainous southern Iran killed 302 of the nation's elite Revolutionary Guards. The crash was the deadliest in a string of plane accidents that the government has blamed on US sanctions preventing the country from repairing and replacing its aging fleet.

Posted by Steve 2003-02-19 20:44:03|| 2003-02-19 20:44:03|| Front Page Top

#7 Uh, how could the US withold spare parts for Russian-made airplanes? They may want to talk to Putin about their maintenance problems...

Posted by R. McLeod 2003-02-20 00:57:31|| 2003-02-20 00:57:31|| Front Page Top

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