guess who got killed in the Iran plan crash - 78 journalists

[donsu]

http://www.sibernews.com/the_news/world_news/78_journalists_die_in_iran_crash_200512072940/

78 journalists die in Iran crash

A military cargo plane attempting an emergency landing Tuesday in Tehran clipped an apartment building and crashed short of the runway, killing at least 115 people, including 78 journalists who were en route to cover military maneuvers in southern Iran. The victims also included 21 people who were either in apartments that were engulfed in flames or cars near the base of the 10-storey building.

Authorities said all 84 passengers and 10 crew members died on the US-built C-130 aircraft.

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Iranian news agencies said the pilot reported engine trouble shortly after taking off from Mehrabad International Airport in southwestern Tehran. The aircraft was circling back for an emergency landing when its wing struck the building in the Towhid complex, one of many medium-rise concrete residential buildings adjacent to the airport.

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News reports said the Lockheed C-130, a four-engine turbo-prop, may have been acquired from the United States when Iran was a U.S. ally and ruled by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. The monarchy was overthrown by the 1979 revolution that established an Islamic state.

U.S. trade sanctions against Iran have led to chronic shortages of aircraft spare parts. The Bush administration this year held out the possibility of lifting the sanction on airline parts as a bargaining chip in negotiations over the future of Iran's nuclear program.
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journalist: one of the most lethal jobs on the planet

US trade sanctions: cruel

[EVDebs]

1. What news agencies, who would have a breakdown of the 78 ?

[GrumpyGreg]

4. What difference does it make? Sadly,they are dead.

[AZBlue]

6. Exactly what I was thinking. (n/t)

[bahrbearian]

2. "Iran is a quick learner",,, (quote from Cheney)

[gordianot]

3. Could journalism in Iran be on par with journalism in Iraq?

Could I end up on Bill O'Rielly's black list if I suggested the same flight arrangements for Faux News?

[Warpy]

7. I don't think so. Iran is a pretty remarkable country

when you start looking closely at it. No, it's not a place I could live, but the system is quite open in many ways.

For everything you can point to that is repressive and theocratic and stifling to the spirit, you can point to something else that we'd envy here.

I think it likelier that it was CIA lightning that hit that plane.

[gordianot]

8. I remember another odd plane crash of Iranian Special Forces 2 years ago.

Low poll numbers keep USA at bay.

[madrchsod]

5. most if not all were observing

military maneuvers in southern iran. no wonder they reject the united states and are looking elsewhere for much needed upgrades to their air transportation system.