Tuesday, December 06, 2005
IRI C-130 Plane Wreck Kills All 94 Passengers...
I wrote this as a comment on Shahram Kholdi's page discussing the environment in which this C-130 plane was invariably being forced to operate in and the damning history in which it flew.
The C-130 CARGO PLANE crashes into "Shahrake Tohid" a military-personnel residential area very near to
The plane was carrying about 40 or so journalists, ranging from ISNA, IRIB, and other newspapers/journals of the country.
The destination was Bandar Abbas, and the journalists were supposedly going there for the oversee of the Islamic Republic's Navy fleets in the
THey crashed around 1:20 PM, and the news reported it on all National IRI channels almost a few minutes later, by phone. The first images were broadcast at least an hour or more after the crash; because of the strenuous event and the busy and confusing situation, most journalists were either subdued or their equipment was destroyed in the waking moments of the crash and its aftermath.
By now, the rescue effort, in IRI News broadcasting words, has finished, and there are forensic specialists who worked on the bodies and are still working to find identities for the badly charred remains.
Excluding the plane, they still aren't exactly sure as the correct number of outside casualties; people in the residence of the nine-story apartment building, people on the streets, etc...
We all continue to follow this story, as it unfolds, and the purported explanation for the crash, from eyewitness reports and the Military was that the Pilot reported engine problems, and was requesting emergency landing, and was spotted by eyewitnesses just before its plunge into the civilian area as having flames coming off of one wing.
The flight was nearly 24 minutes long in its entirety.
Praying for a much needed committee of investigation/resolution on this issue(as you talked about it in your post) and for the healing of scars left by such vicious blows to the people here.
