Very, very strange, readers: 44 Iranian Scientists and Engineers were on board Kyrgyz 737
And then there is this:
"Plane Crash Kills 115 In Iran; Plane Loaded With Journalists Slams Into 10-Story Apartment Building
TEHRAN, Iran, Dec. 6, 2005
(CBS/AP) A military plane loaded with Iranian journalists crashed into a 10-story apartment building Tuesday as the pilot attempted an emergency landing after developing engine trouble. At least 115 people died, the Tehran police chief said.
Before firefighters extinguished the blaze, flames roared from the roof and windows in several of the upper floors. Several hours after the crash, the building still was smoldering, with black smoke hanging in the air.
WTF? Why didn't it COLLAPSE like the WTC towers?
The C-130 is built by Lockheed. The plane may have been sold to the Iranian air force when the United States had close relations with the Iranian monarch, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, before the Islamic revolution in 1979.
In April, an Iranian military Boeing 707 with 157 people aboard skidded off a runway at Tehran airport and caught fire, killing three people. In 2003, a Russian-made Ilyushin-76 carrying members of the elite Revolutionary Guards crashed in the mountains of southeastern Iran, killing 302 people.
In 2002, a Ukrainian-built aircraft carrying aerospace scientists crashed in central Iran, killing all 44 people aboard. And in 1988, an Iran Air A300 Airbus was shot down by the USS Vincennes over the Persian Gulf, killing 290.
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