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Iran grounds An-140, An-74

 
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 19, 2014 5:29 pm    Post subject: Iran grounds An-140, An-74 Reply with quote

http://www.worldbulletin.net/world/142751/iran-grounds-more-russian-planes-over-safety-fears

Iran grounds more Russian planes over safety fears

The second aircraft from the Russian Antonov Company was banned in Iran.


19 August 2014

Iran has banned another type of Russian-designed passenger plane following a deadly crash in Tehran, the state-owned news agency has reported.

According to the ISNA, the managing director of the country’s Airports Company, Mohammad Ali Ilkhani, on Monday said President Hassan Rouhani has ordered that all Antonov-74 passenger planes be grounded.

The ban follows a ban on Antonov-140 aircraft, one of which crashed on August 10, killing 39 people on board.

In six accidents since 2002 involving the Russian-designed Antonov-140, hundreds of Iranians have been killed. Since the 1979 revolution, around 1,800 people have been killed in Iranian air accidents, half of them involving Russian-designed aircraft.

Iranian airlines use Antonovs that are constructed jointly by Iran and Ukraine but follow the original Russian design.

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