IRANIAN COMMISSION INDICATED REASONS FOR TEHRAN-YEREVAN JET CRUSH

PanARMENIAN.Net
20.08.2009 19:46 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Caspian Airlines company’s Tu-154 jet was crushed
because of engine hitch, Iranian commission reports. According to Nelly
Cherchinyan, press secretary of Civil Aviation General Department,
the jet underwent a maintenance check-up in Minvody airport a day
before the crush, and no malfunction problems were discovered. "While
inquest results now confirm that engine hitched during the flight,"
RIA Novosti quotes Cherchinyan as saying.

Hypothesis that crush might have been caused by refuelling proved
untrue. Tu-154 was filled with 22 tons of fuel. Flight to Yerevan and
back was to take 14 tons of fuel. The remaining amount was envisaged
for additional use.

Let’s note that on July 5, a Caspian Airlines company’s Tupelov
jet crushed during Tehran-Yerevan flight. The liner fell down in
an area lying at a distance of 200 km. from Iranian capital. There
were 168 people on board, with 15 being crew members. None of them
survived. Relatives of crush victims have already started receiving
insurance payments in the amount of USD 54 thousand.