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Another Plane Crash - Take off Kyrgyzstan to Iran

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Anonymous Coward
User ID: 486571
8/24/2008 8:35 PM

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To Iran? HMMMMMM Quoting: Anonymous Coward 490213

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 453345 (OP)
8/24/2008 9:08 PM

Re: Another Plane Crash - Take off Kyrgyzstan to Iran

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Here some more

Note:

# of Iranians on board went from 52 to 5
Article says 51 foreigners but numbers don't add up
Now Iran denies they operated the flight
Bound for Tehran

[link to www.smh.com.au]

Plane crash: 68 killed in Kyrgyzstan

August 25, 2008 - 6:07AM

A passenger plane bound for Iran crashed shortly after take-off from the Kyrgyzstan capital of Bishkek on Sunday, claiming the lives of 68 people onboard, the health ministry said.

The Boeing-737 carrying 90 people went down a few kilometres from Bishkek's Manas airport after the plane suffered a dramatic loss of cabin pressure, said Prime Minister Igor Chudinov.

"According to updated information, 68 passengers were killed, including 24 Kyrgyz, five Iranians, one Turkish national, three Canadians, three Kazakhs and one Chinese," Chudinov's spokeswoman Rosa Daudova said.

Earlier, health ministry spokeswoman Yelena Bayalinova had told AFP that "65 passengers were killed, 22 injured and three are missing".

The plane was owned by Itek Air, a private Kyrgyz company, that is on the European Union blacklist of airlines banned from flying in EU airspace.

Chudinov said all seven crew members were among the survivors of the crash, the worst in the former Soviet republic of Kyrgyzstan since the Central Asian state gained independence in the early 1990s. Kyrgyzstan boasts Central's Asia biggest and most modern airport.

"The plane took off and then it lost pressure," Chudinov told reporters. It was bound for Tehran, according to airport officials.

The pilot made an emergency landing in a field not far from the runway and the plane caught fire, he said.

Civil aviation officials said it went down at around 8:40 pm, just 10 minutes after take-off.

Kyrgyz reporters on the scene said body parts were strewn across a large area surrounding the plane wreckage.

There were 51 foreigners among the passengers, according to the prime minister.

Rescue teams and firefighters were dispatched to the crash site near the village of Dzhany-Dzher where the plane was engulfed in flames, officials said.

US military officials at a nearby base sent firefighters and medical staff to the scene, said Aygul Karemshakova, a press spokeswoman for the US base in Kyrgyzstan.

The prime minister said the plane had no known safety problems.

"The Boeing was produced in 1979, was in good condition, was checked a month ago and had an extended warranty," he said.

Iran's ambassador to Kyrgyzstan visited the injured at Bishkek hospitals as rescuers continued a frantic search for survivors under the cover of darkness.

"Mostly the passengers have combined injuries - burns, broken bones and bumps," a doctor at Bishkek hospital said.

There were reports that the plane was owned by the Iranian company Aseman and leased to Itek Air, but a spokesman for the national aviation agency in Tehran denied the information.

"The plane belongs to Kyrgyz airlines," said Reza Jafarzadeh, spokesman for the agency, the official Irna news agency reported.

The accident came only four days after a Spanair flight bound for Spain's Canary Islands crashed in Madrid on Wednesday, killing 154 people.

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 474766
8/24/2008 10:31 PM

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So we have an Air Force Base there too? We really are ringing Russia in. No wonder Putin is on edge.

Anonymous Coward
User ID: 294651
8/25/2008 5:03 AM

Re: Another Plane Crash - Take off Kyrgyzstan to Iran	Quote
So we have an Air Force Base there too? We really are ringing Russia in. No wonder Putin is on edge. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 474766 Manas Air Base [link to en.wikipedia.org]

G. House
User ID: 490697
8/25/2008 7:49 AM

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Losing cabin pressure shortly after take-off? Why would cabin pressure be a factor shortly after take-off? I've never heard of such a thing.

DebZ
User ID: 490727
8/25/2008 9:32 AM

Re: Another Plane Crash - Take off Kyrgyzstan to Iran	Quote
The pilot was a poophead!

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