Sunday, January 24, 2010

Crash Landing in Mashhad

A day after a passenger train derailed leaving Mashhad, killing seven people, a passenger jet crashed landed in the city, injuring 46 people. The Taban Air plane caught fire upon landing at Mashhad at 7:20 am local time on Sunday. Iran has seen numerous crashes in recent years and its airlines have been plagued by maintenance problems.

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Paul Iddon said...

The fact the Iranians can't even acquire sufficient spare parts for 'civil' airliners is quite ridiculous!

Remember the C-130 crash back in 2005 that hit the apartment building and killed around 90 people!?