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Something odd & Interesting

November 15 2009 at 1:47 PM
fariborz  (Login fariborz_57)
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Head of Iranian air force has announced that production of an IR type AA missle has started in large quantities. The part in the article that was more interesting to me is the part where he states that some (indicating more than one) foreign airplanes entered Iranian air space and were forced to land.

Has anyone heard anything about this?

http://news.gooya.com/politics/archives/2009/11/096219.php 

 


 
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Re: Something odd & Interesting

November 15 2009, 6:38 PM 

I think, he is talking about this incident:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/07/world/main4505679.shtml

Iran Forced Hungarian Plane To Land
Aircraft Carrying Military Personnel Strayed Into Iranian Airspace Due To "Administrative Error"
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(AP) Iran forced an aircraft carrying Hungarian military officials to land after it entered its airspace, Hungary's Defense Ministry said Tuesday. The plane was allowed to continue to Afghanistan after it was determined the entry was accidental.

The ministry said the airplane, carrying a four-member Hungarian military delegation, had strayed into Iran's airspace on Sept. 30 because of an "administrative error."

"After clearing up the problem, the airplane was able to continue its journey to Afghanistan," the ministry said in a statement released in Budapest.

The military personnel were part of a Hungarian team that took over direction of Kabul's international airport this month, it said, adding that they were flying in a civilian Hawker 800 plane rented from the private Hungarian firm JAS Cargoways.

Iran's semi-official Fars news agency had initially reported that the plane was American and was carrying five military officials and three civilians from Turkey to Afghanistan when it was forced by the Iranian air force to land at an airport for questioning.

The report prompted a denial from the U.S. military's Central Command, which said in a statement from its headquarters in Doha, Qatar, that no American plane was involved.

Later, Iran's official Arabic-language television station, Al-Alam, quoted an unidentified senior Iranian military official as saying the plane belonged either to a British or Hungarian relief agency.

Both Iranian news reports said Iranian officials questioned the passengers and determined that the entry had been accidental, and that the plane was allowed to continue to Afghanistan the following day.

 
 
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Re: Something odd & Interesting

November 15 2009, 8:38 PM 

^ah thanks man that explains a lot

 
 

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Re: Something odd & Interesting

November 15 2009, 9:30 PM 

Hows does one "accidentally" stray into Iranian airspace from a pre-determined flight path that is punched into the flight control computer and have navigational read out and GPS etc..so that even w/o a pilot, the craft stays on track???                              Was the pilot leaning on the steering control while chatting up the flight attendant? Or did a giant heavy pigeon sit on one of the wing aerolons?

Was it slightly into our air space or right over Qom?

Somethings fishy....maybe.

This is riddle only fit for......PERSPOLIS!



    
This message has been edited by Mehran. on Nov 15, 2009 9:36 PM


 
 
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