Report on Iran's C130 crash deliverd to judiciary

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The fact finding team working on last month's deadly crash of an Islamic Republic Air Force C130 plane has delivered the outcome of its month-long research on the issue to Armed Forces Judiciary, said an official, according to IRNA. READ MORE

"Following the C130 disaster a fact finding team, comprised of twenty-nine flight experts and aviation technicians, was immediately commissioned by the Joint Chief of Staff to prepare a comprehensive report on the issue under supreme supervision of that commandeer," the Cultural and Propagation Deputy of Joint Chief of Staff Brigadier General Ali-Reza Afshar said.

The revolutionary guard commander reiterated, "Following thirty days of hard work, including over 10,500 man/hour incessant work with no days off, even on national holidays and Fridays, benefitted from expert level opinions of aviation technicians and headquarter officials, that team managed to prepare its report in the presence of security and judiciary officials.

Brigadier General Afshar said, "This team has meanwhile benefitted from the tape recording of the conversation between the crashed plane's pilot and the control tower, the memory of the control tower's radar system, and interviews with experts in various related fields."

He added, "The fact finding team also took off in another C130 Air Force plane and flew for four hours in similar routs with the crashed plane under various possible circumstances close to the crashed plane and checked the level of reliability of different existing hypotheses on the cause of the fatal crash."

The Cultural and Propagation Deputy Chief of Staff further explained, "The final version of that fact finding team's report, inclusive of official documents, findings of up-to-date and expert level research works, and the team's final conclusions, was delivered to the Judiciary Body of Iranian Armed Forces on Thursday.

Brigadier General Afshar who is meanwhile the representative of the Joint Chief of Staff at the Islamic Consultative Assembly, Majlis, once again expressed sympathy with the bereaved families of the victims of the crash and those who have suffered material losses in it.

He expressed hope at the end that relying on serious pursuing of the concerned officials and the members of the parliament the factors leading to such disasters would be better identified and eliminated to avoid the occurrence of similar disasters in country's entire air fleet.

A Lockheed C130 Hercules transport workhorse, said to have technical problems, crashed into a 10-storey high-rise residential complex in Towhid Township south of Tehran on Tuesday December sixth shortly after takeoff, resulting in martyrdom of all the 94 passengers, mostly journalists, aboard and of 12 people at the site of the crash. The journalists were heading to Chabahar to cover the Islamic Republic Army exercise.