Tuesday, December 06, 2005
Continuing Tragedy of C-130 Plane Crash
THE FOLLOWING account, and quote from the Iranian journalist tells the people on the ground one important factor about the state of the Airline's ethical business matters.
THE FACT that the pilot is where the BUCK STOPS seems to have alluded this "cargo" plane (I put "cargo" in quotation marks, because the passengers were paying the military as if it were a commercial airliner, and ignoring the simple fact that it should be military personnel only) and the military/airport traffic control.
A pilot's judgment is an obsolete basis for decision on any airline jet, but I believe there were some conditions forced on him and the crew to take the flight as it was a military controlled flight and it would not be under his command to desist from flying.
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Iranian journalists at the scene wept and consoled one another over their colleagues' deaths.
"I was supposed to be on the plane as well so I don't know whether to be happy or sad," said a journalist from the ISNA students news agency who declined to be identified.
He said a colleague had called him from inside the plane before take off. "He said that the pilot didn't want to fly because there was a technical problem with the plane."
An Interior Ministry spokesman said some of those killed on the ground had been in their cars, whose burned-out shells littered the crash site.
The front of the plane was destroyed on impact. A propeller and ripped wing smouldered in front of the blackened flats. Flames licked out of the windows of the apartments and thick black smoke billowed into the sky.
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