Iran Under Fire Over Plane Crash

BBC ^ | December 7, 2005

[daybreakcoming]

Even as we speak, Iranian aviation engineers are investigating the lift/drag characteristics of various carpet designs in the transsonic flight regime...

All right dang it. You made me smile while I am trying really hard to be sad about this.

[Real Cynic No More]

I think the plural of "doofus" should be "doofi". :-)

[Real Cynic No More]

I think the plural of "doofus" should be "doofi". :-)

[GovernmentShrinker]

Officials blame the high frequency of crashes on a lack of aviation spare parts due to US sanctions.

Iran can build nuclear reactors, but can't manufacture spare parts for its aircraft?

[MeanWestTexan]

It reminds me of the lawyer jokes about plane/bus whatever crashing with one empty seat being a tradgedy.

[MeanWestTexan]

"How are US sanctions to blame when a Russian built Ilyushin crashes?"

But for the sanctions, they wouldn't have to buy Russian hardware.

[nuconvert]

Lol. Did you know, the guy that plays the "soup nazi" is Iranian?

[F14 Pilot]

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[nuconvert]

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[csvset]

I didn't know that.

I can't think of any activity that would have had a higher priority than an aircraft declaring an emergency.

[nuconvert]

You wouldn't think so. But it's Iran, so you never know.

[nuconvert]

Correction on the soup nazi thing. The real guy (the real soup nazi) that they got the idea for the storyline from, is Iranian. His name is Al Yeganeh.