
Crash kills Iran Revolutionary Guards chief CBC \|\| January 11, 2006 [KDR: Do you really think that one of Iran's "most powerful military officer" would have a poorly maintained plane? Related - Nuclear War against Iran] The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards ground force was killed along with other senior officers in the crash of a French-built executive jet on Monday, Iranian news agencies said. Ahmad Kazemi, a veteran of Iran's 1980-88 war with Iraq, was one of the country's most powerful military officials. The Guards are a parallel military structure with ground, sea and air elements pledged to defend Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution. The crash killed at least 11 people and by some accounts as many as 15. Among the dead are Kazemi's deputy, his artillery chief and at least five other officers, some or all of them members of the Guards' ground command council. A history of aviation disasters The jet, a Dassault Falcon, was being used as a military passenger plane in a country with a shaky record of flight safety and aircraft maintenance. Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com Last month, a U.S.-built Hercules military transport crashed into an apartment building in Tehran, killing about 115 people. In 2003, a Russian-built Ilyushin-76 carrying Guards members crashed in mountainous terrain, killing as many as 302. The Mehr news agency said both of the Falcon's engines failed. Other reports said the difficulties included jammed landing gear, bad weather and poor visibility as the pilots tried to land at Orumiyeh, in northwestern Iran. The plane hit ground at a village about 12 kilometres from the airport, the IRNA news agency said. In his message of condolence, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said: "What can help us bear the departure of the beloved soldiers of the Islamic republic is that they have done much to serve the Iranian nation. ... "Blood of the devotees of the motherland would join the blood of the soldiers of beloved Iran and the Islamic republic who dedicated their blood for the cause of honour and dignity of the nation." About KDR \| \| Home \| \| Weekly Features Archive	Weekly Weekly Features Archive
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Crash kills Iran Revolutionary Guards chief

CBC || January 11, 2006

[KDR: Do you really think that one of Iran's "most powerful military officer" would have a poorly maintained plane? Related - Nuclear War against Iran]

The commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards ground force was killed along with other senior officers in the crash of a French-built executive jet on Monday, Iranian news agencies said.

Ahmad Kazemi, a veteran of Iran's 1980-88 war with Iraq, was one of the country's most powerful military officials. The Guards are a parallel military structure with ground, sea and air elements pledged to defend Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.

The crash killed at least 11 people and by some accounts as many as 15. Among the dead are Kazemi's deputy, his artillery chief and at least five other officers, some or all of them members of the Guards' ground command council.

A history of aviation disasters

The jet, a Dassault Falcon, was being used as a military passenger plane in a country with a shaky record of flight safety and aircraft maintenance.

Article Posted at www.KnowledgeDrivenRevolution.com

Last month, a U.S.-built Hercules military transport crashed into an apartment building in Tehran, killing about 115 people. In 2003, a Russian-built Ilyushin-76 carrying Guards members crashed in mountainous terrain, killing as many as 302.

The Mehr news agency said both of the Falcon's engines failed. Other reports said the difficulties included jammed landing gear, bad weather and poor visibility as the pilots tried to land at Orumiyeh, in northwestern Iran.

The plane hit ground at a village about 12 kilometres from the airport, the IRNA news agency said.

In his message of condolence, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said:

"What can help us bear the departure of the beloved soldiers of the Islamic republic is that they have done much to serve the Iranian nation. ...

"Blood of the devotees of the motherland would join the blood of the soldiers of beloved Iran and the Islamic republic who dedicated their blood for the cause of honour and dignity of the nation."

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