TEHRAN, July 16 (Xinhua) -- The Rescue Chief of Iran's Red Crescent Society said Thursday that Iran has recovered the third black box of the crashed plane, the local Mehr news agency reported.
Iranian soldiers gather 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. (Xinhua/Liang Youchang) Photo Gallery>>>
"The rescuers found the third black box of the
(crashed) plane four kilometers away from the crash site," the Rescue Chief
Ahmad Esfandiari told Mehr, adding that "the rescuers have handed it over to the
security officials of Civil Aviation Organization."
Earlier on Thursday, Iran announced that two black
boxes of the passenger plane which crashed on Wednesday near the country's
northwestern city of Gazvin were found.
The black boxes were heavily damaged and experts from
Iran's Civil Aviation Organization (CAO) are trying to retrieve data, head of
the Crisis Working Group of Iran's Road and Transportation Ministry Ahmad Majidi
was quoted as saying by local satellite Press TV.
"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," Majidi said.
Iran's Civil Aviation Organization Spokesman Reza
Jafarzadeh said Thursday that Russian experts will join Iran experts to probe
passenger plane crash, the local ISNA news agency reported.
"Five Russian experts are due in Tehran tomorrow (on
Friday) to cooperate to probe the air crash," Jafarzadeh said to ISNA.
All the 168 people aboard, including 153 passengers
and 15 crewmembers were killed during the crash.
The cause of the disaster is not immediately clear,
but the Road and Transportation Minister's envoy have already attributed the
incident to the probable "technical problems of the airliner, not to the pilot's
failure."
In the past, Iran's airlines have suffered a number
of flight disasters, both civil and military use.
Experts believe that the U.S.-imposed sanctions
against Iran, which prevented its allies from selling aircraft or aircraft parts
to the country, "have undermined safety standards within Iran's civil and
military aviation fleet and is increasing the likelihood of more major air
disasters."
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. Full story
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
Gallery>>>
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
Gallery>>>
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
Gallery>>>
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
Gallery>>>
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
