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  • Doomed UTA Flight 141 May Have Been Stolen Angolan Boeing 727

    01/01/2004 2:18:07 AM PST · by L`enn · 44 replies · 578+ views
    The doomed UTA Flight 141 may have been a Boeing 727 that was stolen from Luanda airport in Angola in May, or a U.S.-registered aircraft that had undergone an exterior makeover at Beirut International Airport, where its technical worthiness had been questioned. According to Wednesday's edition of An Nahar, neither of these theories has yet been proven, leaving officials scrambling to distance themselves from Lebanon's worst civil aviation catastrophe, even though it did not occur on its soil. As more intrigues unfolded in the case of the Christmas Day crash of the Beirut-bound flight from Benin, the last batch of...