Monday, February 16, 2009

In Iran, a training plane crashed.

On Sunday, as a result of the training plane crash in Iran killed five people, transmits Agence France-Presse, referring to the Iranian media.
The disaster occurred when the plane came to land at an airport near the city of Isfahan 340 kilometers south of the capital Tehran. Killed all on board - the pilot and four enrolled. Has a civil or military aircraft, not specified. The reasons for the collapse had not yet been set.
It reminds the agency, most of the Iranian military aircraft were delivered in 1970 from the U.S., but after the Islamic revolution in 1979, Washington suspended military cooperation with Tehran, and maintenance of equipment has proved much more difficult. Nevertheless, according to the Ministry of Finance of the U.S. government during the administration of George W. Bush 's exports of American products to Iran, despite economic sanctions, has grown tenfold. In particular, during this period Iran has purchased in the U.S. parts for the aircraft to 620 thousand dollars.

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