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  • Overloading may have contributed to crash of Iranian transport

    02/20/2003 2:35:49 PM PST · by knighthawk · 5 replies · 190+ views
    Jane's ^ | Februari 20 2003 | Peter Felstead
    Bad weather is being cited as the prime cause of Iran’s worst air disaster, in which an Ilyushin Il-76 military transport aircraft crashed in a mountainous region of southeast Iran yesterday evening, killing all 302 people on board. However, a glance at Jane’s reference data suggests that overloading of the aircraft may well have been a contributory factor. As of yesterday, the Iranian military had around 15 Il-76MD ‘Candid-Bs’ in service, many of which were originally in Iraq’s inventory and were impounded by Iran following the exodus of Baghdad’s military air assets after the launch of Operation ‘Desert Storm’ in...