Hmmmmmmm.
80 Pax 10 crew. According to Iranian Police. Only bullet headlines so far.
Wonder whose military, were they coming or going?
CNN reports the aircraft as a C-130.
Not good. Bump to the article.
AFP - Un avion militaire C130 s'écrase sur un quartier résidentiel de Téhéran
Was AirForce C-130 which had to turn around and return to Tehran after tech probs. Apparently crashed into housing area of military.
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It would be a shame if it were carrying Russian military advisors.
Now that the hurricane season is over, Bush and Rove are playing with their aircraft crusher..../sarcasm
Military Plane Carrying 94 Crashes in Iran
AP would have us believe that it was probably a U.S. military plane! Misleading headline! It was an Iranian military plane.
Iranian Military Plane Carrying 94 Crashes
6 minutes ago
TEHRAN, Iran - An Iranian military transport plane with 94 people on board crashed into a 10-story building in the suburbs of the capital Tehran on Tuesday, state television reported.
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The building was reported to be on fire, and fire fighters were on the scene working to save people trapped in the building in the Azari residential district.
The C-130 aircraft hit the building while coming in to land at Tehran's Mehrabad airport, state television reported.
The plane, which belonged to the Army's air force, was carrying 84 passengers and 10 crew, the report said.
State television said the plane crashed because of a technical failure as it was trying to make an emergency landing.
The plane crashed into the Towhid residential complex.
It reportedly had taken off from Mehrabad airport and was heading to Bandar Abbas, a port city in southern
Iran.
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{snip} The plane was due to fly from Tehran to Bandar Abbas in the north-west of Iran. Passengers are said to have included a group of journalists sent to cover military exercises there.
Bandar Abbas is on the coast near where the earthquake was centered on Qeshm Island about 10 days ago. The plane was probably transporting people to and from the quake area.
Wasn't there another plane in Iran with several high-ranking military aboard that 'crashed' several months ago?
Is there a systemic problem with Iranian planes or with Iranian planes carrying high-ranking military?
hmmmmm
And this is a bad thing?
They really can find excuse to blame America for anything bad happen to them. I wonder if they're blaming America for being Muslims too...
Cats! You have been warned.