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07-15-2009, 07:30 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Stafford Springs, Connecticut
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| Iranian Plane Crashes near Tehran Iranian plane crashes into field, killing all 168 - Yahoo! News Unfortunately, nobody survived the crash after takeoff.
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07-15-2009, 09:00 PM
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  | Cripes, what's up with gravity lately???? At least it was not an Airbus.
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07-15-2009, 09:04 PM
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| Won't know for certain until the black boxes are recovered and anaylzed, but I'm putting my money on mechanical failure.
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07-16-2009, 03:31 AM
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| I hope they find out what caused it to crash and can use that information to help make planes even more safe. Wheels
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07-16-2009, 03:46 AM
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| I´ve read there´s a very bad A/Cs maintainance in this area.
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07-16-2009, 07:11 PM
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| Der Crewchief   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Ansbach, Germany
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| Damn this is not a good year at all for aviation!
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07-16-2009, 07:18 PM
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| "World Traveller"   Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Royal Deeside/St Andrews, Scotland, UK
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 | Damn, it isn't a good year at all. This one is bound to be mechanical though because of the poor safety record and lack of spare parts around.
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07-16-2009, 08:00 PM
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| I read that the black boxes were destroyed.
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