TEHRAN, July 16 (Xinhua) -- Two black boxes of a
passenger plane which crashed on Wednesday near the country's northwestern city
of Gazvin were found, local English-language Press TV reported on Thursday.
Search is underway to find the third black box, head
of the Crisis Working Group of Iran's Road and Transportation Ministry Ahmad
Majidi was quoted as saying.
The black boxes were heavily damaged and experts from
Iran's Civil Aviation Organization (CAO) are trying to retrieve data, he said.
"If efforts to retrieve data from the boxes fail,
they will be sent back to the country that has produced them so that they could
be repaired in order to find the reason behind the crash," he added.
All the 168 people aboard, including 153 passengers and
15 crew members were killed.
According to Press TV, seven passengers were
foreigners from Armenia and Georgia and all the other passengers were Iranians.
TEHRAN, July 15 (Xinhua) -- An Iranian passenger plane crashed on
Wednesday morning near the country's northwestern city of Gazvin and all 168
people on board were killed, Iran's state TV IRIB website reported.
Debris is seen at the crash site of the
Caspian Airlines plane, which fell into farmland near the city of Qazvin,
northwest of Tehran on July 15, 2009. The Iranian airliner en route to
neighbouring Armenia crashed on Wednesday, killing all 168 people on board
in the worst air disaster in Iran in recent years. (Xinhua/Liang
Youchang) Photo
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IRIB quoted an official of the Health Ministry
Mohammad Reza Montazer Khorasan as saying that all the people on board were
killed. Full story
TEHRAN, July 15 (Xinhua) -- An Iranian passenger plane
crashed near the country's northwestern city of Gazvin and all 168 people on
board were killed, Iran's state TV IRIB website reported Wednesday.
The crash took place eleven minutes after take-off from
Tehran's international Imam Khomeini airport and 70 miles (112.7 km) from
Tehran.
IRIB quoted an official from the health ministry, Mohammad
Reza Montazer Khorasan, as saying that all the people on board were killed. Full story
Relatives and friends of passengers
aboard the Airbus flight A310-300 from Yemen arrive at a crisis center at
Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris, June 30, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters
Photo) Photo
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DAR ES SALAAM, July 10 (Xinhua) -- Rescue workers have
found eight more bodies from the ill-fated Yemenian airliner in the water of the
eastern Tanzanian coast with the total number up to 22, the local newspaper the
Daily News reported on Friday.
Some 14 bodies arrived in Dar es Salaam on Thursday aboard
a private charter aircraft for DNA testing, identification and further
examinations. Full story
SANA'A, June 30 (Xinhua) -- A Yemeni
airliner with more than 150 people on board crashed in the Comoros archipelago
in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, an employee working at Yemen's airport control
tower confirmed with Xinhua.
The employee said on condition of
anonymity that an Airbus A310 belonging to Yemenia Air crashed with 150 people
on board some 15 minutes before its landing in Moroni, capital of
Comoros. Full story
A handout picture from the Brazilian
Navy released on June 22, 2009 shows Brazilian Navy warships searching for
debris from Air France Airbus A330 out of the Atlantic Ocean. Brazilian
Navy announced on Monday that they found more debris of the crashed Air
France Airbus A330. (Xinhua Photo) Photo
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PARIS, July 2 (Xinhua) -- The Airbus
A330 of Air France Flight 447 plunged vertically into the Atlantic Ocean but did
not break up in the air, said the BEA accident investigation agency on Thursday
when it released its first report on the June 1 crash.
The agency added that the faults of
the speed sensors were not the cause of the crash. Full story
A handout picture released by the
Brazilian Navy shows recovered debris of the Air France aircraft lost in
midflight over the Atlantic Ocean on June 1 onboard a Brazilian Navy
Corvette at Recife's harbour on June 19, 2009. (Xinhua/Brazilian
Navy Handout) Photo
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PARIS, June 1 (Xinhua) -- Chances of
finding any survivors are "very slim" as an Air France airliner with 228 people
on board vanished over the Atlantic Ocean, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said
on Monday.
In a statement at Paris' Charles de
Gaulle following his meeting with relatives of passengers on the plane, Sarkozy
said: "The chances of finding any survivors are very slim." Full story
