Joint inquiry starts into Iranian plane crash in UAE

0 Comments | AFP, February, 2004

DUBAI (AFP) — Experts from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Iranian civil aviation authorities began investigating what caused an Iranian Kish Airlines flight to crash in the UAE without warning, killing 43 people on board.

"Experts from the Iranian Civil Aviation Authority started their inquiry this morning with representatives of the United Arab Emirates General Civil Aviation Authority," the head of Sharjah's civil aviation authority, Abdul Wahab Mohammed al-Roomi, told AFP Wednesday.

The plane crashed as it was coming in to land in Sharjah on Tuesday, leaving just three survivors out of the 46 people on board as it narrowly missed a residential area before plunging to the ground.

"A representative of Sharjah's civil aviation authority took part in the...

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