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  • Training aircraft crashes in Turkey, one dead

    Training aircraft crashes in Turkey, one dead

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    Training aircraft crashes in Turkey, one dead: report

    29 September 2012 | 19:21 | FOCUS News Agency

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    Ankara. A training plane on Saturday crashed in Ankara, killing one person and injuring another, said Anatolia news agency, as cited by AFP.

    The C-170 single engine aircraft plunged into the garden of a house in the Cubuk district of the Turkish capital near the airport, said Anatolia.

    The plane, owned by the Istanbul aviation club, had hit power transmission lines before the crash, the report added. It was not immediately clear from where the plane had taken off.

    via Training aircraft crashes in Turkey, one dead: report – FOCUS Information Agency.

  • Polish President Lech Kaczynski ‘in plane crash’

    Polish President Lech Kaczynski ‘in plane crash’

    Polish President Lech Kaczynski and scores of others are believed to have been killed in a plane crash in Russia.

    Lech Kaczynski, file image

    Officials in the Smolensk region said no-one had survived after the plane apparently hit trees as it came in for landing in thick fog.

    Several other government figures, including the army chief of staff, were also thought to have been on board.

    They were in Russia to mark the 70th anniversary of the Katyn massacre, when the Soviets killed thousands of Poles.

    The BBC’s Adam Easton in Warsaw says the crash is a catastrophe for the Polish people.

    He says Prime Minister Donald Tusk was reportedly in tears when he was told.

    Plane ‘hit trees’

    The Russian emergencies ministry told Itar-Tass news agency the plane crashed at 1056 Moscow time (0656 GMT).

    Ministry spokeswoman Irina Andrianova said it had been flying from Moscow to Smolensk, but had no details on the identities of those killed.

    Smolensk regional governor Sergei Antufiev told Russian TV that no-one had survived.

    “As it was preparing for landing, the Polish president’s aircraft did not make it to the landing strip,” he said.

    “According to preliminary reports, it got caught up in the tops of trees, fell to the ground and broke up into pieces. There are no survivors in that crash.

    “We are clarifying how many people there were in the [Polish] delegation. According to preliminary reports, 85 members of the delegation and the crew.”

    Russian investigators said there were a total of 132 people on the plane.

    Smolensk map

    Controversial figure

    The president was flying in a Tupolev 154, a plane that was designed in the 1960s and capable of carrying more than 100 passengers.

    Our correspondent says there had been calls for Polish leaders to upgrade their planes.

    As well as the president and his wife, Maria, a number of senior officials were also said to be on the passenger list.

    They included the army chief of staff Gen Franciszek Gagor, central bank governor Slawomir Skrzypek and deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer.

    Mr Kaczynski has been a controversial figure in Polish politics, advocating a right-wing Catholic agenda.

    He has opposed rapid free-market reforms and favoured retaining social welfare programmes.

    BBC

  • Up to 169 aboard feared killed in Iran plane crash

    Up to 169 aboard feared killed in Iran plane crash

    b3TEHRAN (Reuters) – A passenger aircraft crashed in northwestern Iran on Wednesday and up to 169 people on board were feared killed, ISNA news agency reported.

     

    “153 passengers along with 16 crew were on the plane that crashed,” ISNA said, without giving a source.

     

    Earlier Iranian state television said that all 150 people on board had been killed.

    The Caspian Airlines aircraft was traveling from Tehran to Yerevan in Armenia when it came down at 11:33 a.m. (0703 GMT) near the city of Qazvin, the official IRNA news agency said.

     

    Iran’s English-language Press TV said in a scrolling news headline, “150 people on board crashed Iran plane believed dead.”

     

    A fire brigade official earlier told IRNA that everyone on board was killed. IRNA quoted an Iranian aviation spokesman as saying a the plane crashed 16 minutes after take-off from the capital’s Imam Khomeini International airport.

     

    (Editing by Louise Ireland)

    Reuters