This was a strange cse to begin with. The airplane just did a nosedive into the ground? I'd love to known precisely who all was on that plane. You never know. However, it was Russian built, so it very well may have been a simple failure - sort of what GM will be like now that the US government is running it!
Black Boxes From Iranian Air Crash Found - NYTimes.com.
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Investigators said Thursday they had found two of the three flight data recorders that were on board the Iranian passenger plane that crashed and exploded shortly after takeoff from Tehran on Wednesday. All 168 people aboard the Russian-built airliner were killed, Iran’s state news media said. The plane, leased by Tehran-based Caspian Airlines, had been bound for the Armenian capital of Yerevan.
When my daughter lived in Moscow I told her to never, ever, fly on Aeroflot.
Posted by: Lala | Thursday, July 16, 2009 at 03:03 PM