Posted on 12/24/2005 1:56:06 PM PST by HAL9000
BAKU. Dec 24 (Interfax) - Ilham Amirov, deputy general director of Azerbaijani state airline AzAL, said it "cannot be ruled out" that "a terrorist act" caused Friday's crash of an An-140-100 airliner near Baku.Amirov told reporters that the plane had been in use for only about a year.
Amirov said the investigation of the crash had produced some preliminary findings, but that investigators have yet to disclose them.
"Amirov told reporters that the plane had been in use for only about a year."
If you do the necessary maintenance, these planes ought to last decades. If you don't, then they won't last a year.
Since this guy doesn't seem to understand that important point, I am getting the uncomfortable feeling that they did not do the maintenance.
....there were many threads on plane crashes was this one of them?
Local television stations reported that wreckage was spread over an area about a mile wide, a pattern that could indicate an explosion."I saw how the plane was flying away from the airport and that flames were coming from its rear part," Hamid Imamverdiyev, a 17-year-old resident in the crash area, told The Associated Press. "Then there was a roar from the plane falling onto the shore."
Another witness, who gave only his first name, Hafiz, said the plane was flying low and caught fire shortly before slamming into the ground.
Not enough information yet to speculate.
This makes me personally nervous because one of my sons is in Georgia and had hoped to go back for a second visit to Azerbaijan sometime next year. Apparently it's beautiful country.
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