Passenger Plane Catches Fire in Iran

Alaina Dula

Sociology 202 Current Event #3

Sept.1, 2006


Passenger Plane Catches Fire in Iran


Today a Russian-built Tupolev 154 plane caught on fire after its tire burst on landing at an airport in Iran’s northern city of Mashhad that killed at least eighty people, stated by officials and state television. State television said one-hundred forty seven people were aboard the flight to Mashhad, home to Iran’s shrine, from southern port city of Bandar Abbas. State television shows a broken-up plane on the sides of the runway. The cockpit’s shown to be largely unaffected by the fire, just like the rear portion of the plan appeared. Safety experts say that Iran has a poor safety record with strings of crashes in recent decades, many involving Russian-made aircrafts. The last major crash reported involving a military plan that crashed in January, killing at least eleven people, then a military plane hit a tower black in Tehran in December. Killing ninety-four people aboard and twenty-two people on the ground. The latest crash involved a kish airlines Fokker-50 plane, which crashed in Sharjah airport in the United Arab Emirates killing forty-three of the forty-five passengers and crew.

My opinion about this story is after the first couple of crashes reported and knowing that the safety records were bad they should have shut the air line and plane company down seems like, because the first time is an accident, after that it’s not when it keeps on happening repeatedly. I feel sorry for the people who lost there life’s and the family of the victims. But, I would have not even got on any of Russian types of planes if I had known about the previous accidents.



By: Alireza Ronaghi

Updates 9/01/06

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