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IRAN PLANS TO ADD 14 PLANES TO FLEET
Press TV
Aug 23 2010
Iran
Iran plans to add 8 Boeing MD and 6 Airbus passenger planes to its
aviation fleet "in the near future," Iranian Roads and Transportation
Minister Hamid Behbahani says.
"Joining new Western planes into the fleet and replacing old planes
show the ineffectiveness of US sanctions on importing new planes and
aircraft spare parts," Behbahani told the Fars News Agency on Monday.
Behbahani said 5 Boeing MD planes have already joined the country's
air fleet as Iran is currently trying to renovate its planes.
In reaction to several accidents involving Russian-built Tupolev
passenger planes in Iran, the country weighs discharging its entire
Tupolev fleet. More than 20 Tupolev airplanes are currently in service
by different Iranian airline companies.
Iran has suffered a string of aviation disasters over the past decade,
most involving private airlines using Russian-made planes and crew.
Officials have blamed the incidents on a ban by the US on the sale
of new airplanes and spare parts to Iran, forcing it to purchase the
parts from Russia and other former Soviet states.
In the worst plane crash in Iran, a Tupolev-154M, crashed shortly after
take-off from Tehran en route to the Armenian capital of Yerevan on
July 15, 2009, leaving all 168 passengers onboard dead.
From: A. Papazian
Press TV
Aug 23 2010
Iran
Iran plans to add 8 Boeing MD and 6 Airbus passenger planes to its
aviation fleet "in the near future," Iranian Roads and Transportation
Minister Hamid Behbahani says.
"Joining new Western planes into the fleet and replacing old planes
show the ineffectiveness of US sanctions on importing new planes and
aircraft spare parts," Behbahani told the Fars News Agency on Monday.
Behbahani said 5 Boeing MD planes have already joined the country's
air fleet as Iran is currently trying to renovate its planes.
In reaction to several accidents involving Russian-built Tupolev
passenger planes in Iran, the country weighs discharging its entire
Tupolev fleet. More than 20 Tupolev airplanes are currently in service
by different Iranian airline companies.
Iran has suffered a string of aviation disasters over the past decade,
most involving private airlines using Russian-made planes and crew.
Officials have blamed the incidents on a ban by the US on the sale
of new airplanes and spare parts to Iran, forcing it to purchase the
parts from Russia and other former Soviet states.
In the worst plane crash in Iran, a Tupolev-154M, crashed shortly after
take-off from Tehran en route to the Armenian capital of Yerevan on
July 15, 2009, leaving all 168 passengers onboard dead.
From: A. Papazian