A/C Crash in Iran
Ralph Nesbitt
crashed in Iran apparently killing all on board. The Pax on this A/C were
alleged to be "High Level" members of a design team from a A/C
design/manufacturing company from the Ukraine.
Allegedly this group was enroute to an Iranian manufacturing facility that
was preparing for the "First Flight" of an Iranian built Pax A/C. For
Story/Details see:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=540&e=5&u=/ap/20021223/ap_on_re_m
i_ea/iran_plane_crash
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Reports: Plane Crash Kills 46 in Iran.
TEHRAN, Iran - A passenger plane crashed in central Iran on Monday during a
flight from Turkey, killing 46 people, mostly from Ukraine, according to
television reports.
State-run Iran television said the plane crashed near the village of
Baqerabad while attempting to make a scheduled landing close to its
destination — the central Iranian city of Isfahan, some 250 miles south of
Tehran.
Iranian officials did not comment on the passengers' fate, but Qatar-based
satellite station Al-Jazeera quoted sources in Tehran as saying all on board
were killed.
Mykola Melnikov, a duty officer at the Ukrainian Emergency Situations
Ministry, said preliminary information showed the plane appeared to be an
Antonov-140 that took off from Kharkiv, Ukraine Monday with a delegation
from the Kharkiv aircraft plant. The plant built the plane in which they
were flying.
An unidentified Iranian aircraft manufacturing official told Iran television
that the plane lost contact with Isfahan airport's control tower minutes
before
Iranian TV said the scientists were traveling to Iran to attend a Wednesday
test flight of the joint Iranian-Ukrainian manufactured passenger plane,
being built in Isfahan.
The station said the plane was carrying aerospace experts from Ukraine and
Russia. It was not immediately clear why the plane crashed.
Iranian civil authorities said the plane had made a stop in Turkey,
according to Al-Jazeera.
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This goes back to the old adage " Never Put All Your Eggs in 1 Basket".
The DC-9 incident at New Hope, Ga. in the middle 70's set the US Space
Program back several years. A number of the Pax killed in this incident were
high level company exes, scientists, engineers, or significant others that
had been to Huntsville, Al for a special project review. After this incident
most companies, at the urging of the government, instituted restrictions on
all associated with a given project flying on the same A/C.
Ralph Nesbitt
Professional FD/CFR/ARFF Type