Posted on 09/19/2004 5:32:59 PM PDT by notkerry
More Good News From Iraq The MSMs Will Not Report
Iraqi Airways resumes international flights after 14 years National carrier Iraqi Airways has launched its first international flight in 14 years with a plane taking off from Amman to Baghdad - but without any passengers.
(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...
It has only one functioning plane, a Boeing 737.
Airline official Fathi Nassar said the plane left Amman without any passengers because the resumption of flights was announced too late for tickets to be sold.
The 737 made a test flight from Amman to Baghdad on August 23 for the first time since the airline's planes were grounded in Jordan by the UN sanctions.
Iraqi Airways' old fleet is scattered, with several of the aging planes in Amman and Tunis, none of them operational.
Currently, Royal Jordanian flies to Amman from Baghdad's international airport, where commercial aviation has been stymied by the constant threat of missile and rocket attacks by insurgents.
-- AFP
Isn't ABC news MSM?
Let's pray that the pilots are trained in landing a plane. ;-}
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