Iranian Airliner Down

Some survivors luckily.

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20110109-0

It was indeed a 727… reg EP-IRP

It might be a B727.
The TU 154 reference in the BBC report was to accidents that happened last July. It was rather ambiguous.
RIP to all lost.

…another 154.

Belgian TV news (VRT) is reporting a 727 crashed?

…another 154.

RIP to the souls lost.

In an attempt to bring a little bit of lightness into this thread, I used to have very good relations with the statistics team in Iran Air.

So much so that they used to send me a christmas card every year from Teheran…

Seriously, I still have one somewhere in my stuff (which is in storage) which says Merry Christmas from the Iran Air the national airline of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

And to think of the arguments we had in the office over wording of the christmas (or seasonal greetings) cards we were going to send out to airlines around the world…

The US blocked the sale of Fokker F-100s some years back on the account of US made parts in the engines.

That is possible.

However there are now plenty of F100 flying (happily) in the skies of Iran.:)

Iranian parliament asked the government to avoid purchasing timeworn Russian-made passenger planes, after two air crash incidents shocked the country in the past few days, the report quoted Deputy Transportation Minister Ahmad Majidi as saying.
The MPs reiterated in the meeting that the government can import new models of Russian-made planes if only these planes enjoy high quality and security standards.

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 are increasing the likelihood of more major air disasters.

Source: China View

The US blocked the sale of Fokker F-100s some years back on the account of US made parts in the engines.

One cannot blame sanctions for eventual air disasters.

Under sanctions or not, if an aircraft is not serviceable… well… it doesn’t take off. End of story.

Iranian parliament asked the government to avoid purchasing timeworn Russian-made passenger planes, after two air crash incidents shocked the country in the past few days, the report quoted Deputy Transportation Minister Ahmad Majidi as saying.
The MPs reiterated in the meeting that the government can import new models of Russian-made planes if only these planes enjoy high quality and security standards.

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 are increasing the likelihood of more major air disasters.

Source: China View

Here in the UK, I don’t think plane crashes in the developing world are as newsworthy as those in the developed world. Many would regard this as just another clapped-out Tupolev falling from the sky.
Wrong, but true.

Its strange how we have not heard much from the investigations of the crash.

Young survivor leaves hospital

http://www.theage.com.au/world/yemen…0724-dvag.html

Wrong crash mate.

I think you meant this one.

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=92120

Another one, what is going on

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Iran-Passenger-Jet-Crashes-In-North-West-Iran/Article/200907315338369?lpos=World_News_Carousel_Region_2&lid=ARTICLE_15338369_Iran_Passenger_Jet_Crashes_In_North_West_Iran

Oddley enough… it always seems to some form of cycle when it comes to airline disasters? (Not just in threes!)

There will be a period of a few yrs and no major crashes… :confused: Then suddenly a couple will occur around the world.

Sometimes though im sure the media doesnt report major accidents because its in some obscure place and cant be bothered?

Detailed article from CNN.

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/15/iran.plane.crash/index.html

Black boxes recovered
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25791079-5005961,00.html

They call them old Russian aircraft but isn’t the TU-154 just going out of production about now???

Garry

I think it still is in production. And actually I think it’s the Russian airliner with the highest current production volume (will change once the Sukhoi Superjet come online).

Oh no…looks like my words have come back to haunt me
http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=92120

Not surprisingly perhaps I have more hours as a passenger on Soviet/Russian types than “western” ones, and I’m still here after some 30 yrs of flying on them. This includes such carriers as CAAK/Air Koryo, MIAT Mongolian Airlines amongst others, as well as larger flag carriers such as Aeroflot, Interflug and Tarom etc. As far as the Tu154 is concerned, when aircraft numbers in service and passenger kms flown over the years are taken into account as well as the difficult operational and weather conditions that this type regularly encounters, then its safety record is no worse than comparable “western” types, and in some cases is actually better. I am not sure but I dont think that there has ever been a Tu154 brought down by actual failure of the airframe due to fatigue or corrosion, but I stand ready to be corrected.

Needless to say condolances to all concerned:(

They call them old Russian aircraft but isn’t the TU-154 just going out of production about now???

Garry

Most Tu-154s operating now were built in the 1980s, so they can be considered quite old but there were a handful built in the late 1990s early 2000s for, and I think Flex297 might correct me here, Slovakia.