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72 people killed, 33 injured in air crash in north-western Iran.
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TEHRAN, January 10 (Itar-Tass) -- Some 72 people were killed and 33
were injured in an air crash in north-western Iran, the Fars news agency
reported with the reference to the forensic medicine service in the
Iranian province West Azerbaijan.
The airliner that crashed near the city of Orumiyeh was carrying 105
people. According to medical reports, all 12 crewmembers were killed, as
well as a teenager and two newborns. The life of 31 injured people is out
of danger, two people are in critical condition, the Mehr news agency
reported. The flight data recorder was found. The flight controlling
service reported that the crew did not inform about any emergency
situation.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad expressed condolences to the
relatives of killed and injured people. He instructed the Transport
Ministry to carry out a detailed investigation into the air crash, the
Iranian television reported.
Official sources call the bad weather as the preliminary theory of the
air crash. The Iran Air Boeing-727 was on a flight from Tehran to
Orumiyeh, an administrative centre of the Iranian province West
Azerbaijan. Amid a heavy snowfall and a thick fog the crew failed to land
the airliner at the first attempt. The tragedy occurred when the airliner
was sliding down for a landing at 7.45 local time (7.15 Moscow time) on
Sunday. The airliner crash landed seven kilometres away from the city of
Orumiyeh near the southern bank of the Orumiyeh Lake.
This flight from the Iranian capital was delayed for two hours over
heavy snowfalls in northern Iran. Two other flights from Tehran to
Orumiyeh were cancelled on Sunday.
.Power utilities restore power supply on 4 lines in Moscow region.
MOSCOW, January 10 (Itar-Tass) -- Power utility workers have restored
power supplies along four power lines in the Moscow Region over the past
day, but repair teams faced a new problem of vandals hampering their work,
a spokesman for the Moscow United Power Grid Company Vitaly Strugovets
told Itar-Tass on Sunday.
Electric power supplies were restored on nine power lines out of 12
power lines cut from power supplies on Friday evening, he noted.
The restoration works continued on the power lines with a lower
voltage.
Meanwhile, Strugovets noted that power utility workers reported a
strange case at about 7 p.m. Moscow time on Sunday. Unidentified hooligans
cut off the broken wire on the power lines damaged by the fallen trees.
"While thousands of power utility workers not only from the Moscow Region,
but also from many other Russian regions are cleaning up the aftermath of
the natural disaster, the vandals have stolen 200 meters of copper cable
with a total weight of 150 kilograms on Sunday in the Leninsky district,
where an emergency was announced," the spokesman said.
"They believed that no one would notice them and cut off the cable,
probably seeking to sell it later," he assumed. Strugovets emphasized that
power utility workers have already informed the law enforcement agencies
about the incident and hope for the soonest detention of the offenders.
.Search for Partner schooner in Sea of Japan in vain for third day.
MOSCOW, January 10 (Itar-Tass) -- The search for the Partner fishing
schooner, which gave the SOS signals, has been on for the third day in the
Tatar Strait in the north of the Sea of Japan (the East Sea), but she has
not been found yet.
The motor ships Pioneer of Kholmsk of the Sakhalin shipping company
and Chelyabinsk of the Far Eastern shipping company are searching for a
Cambodia-flagged small fishing vessel with a displacement of about 300
tonnes with the shipowner registered in Belize. Three ground teams of
rescuers are searching through the Sakhalin western coast. Some 74 people
and 14 units of machinery are involved in the search operation.
The Partner crew consists of 14 Russian citizens, the Russian maritime
rescue and coordination centre told Itar-Tass.
The Partner crew most likely died, chief of the Russian Fishery Agency
Andrei Krainy told reporters on Sunday. He elaborated that this fishing
vessel was poaching. "No one aboard such poaching vessels thinks about the
vessel, survival suits and life rafts," he noted. Meanwhile, the crewmen
have no chances to survive without this safety equipment in chilly water
of 2-3 degrees Celsius and 3.5-meter-high waves. "Therefore, the fate of
the Partner crew is most likely tragic," Krany said.
He also noted that this fishing vessel was arrested last October, but
then just replaced the documents and kept poaching. "This is a pressing
problem, as the vessels under the flags of third countries are sailing in
our economic zone. They are not equipped with technical control equipment
so that they are not giving a signal to the satellite and are only
poaching," Krainy pointed out.
The Partner fishing vessel gave the SOS signals on January 7. The crew
managed to give the only radio message, "This is the Partner in distress.
The ship is sinking. The only life raft went out of order." After that the
radio contact was lost, but a radio station at the Vanino port received
the SOS signals. The search was launched immediately. Neither the vessel
nor the crew have been found yet.
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TEHRAN, January 10 (Itar-Tass) -- Some 72 people were killed and 33
were injured in an air crash in north-western Iran, the Fars news agency
reported with the reference to the forensic medicine service in the
Iranian province West Azerbaijan.
The airliner that crashed near the city of Orumiyeh was carrying 105
people. According to medical reports, all 12 crewmembers were killed, as
well as a teenager and two newborns. The life of 31 injured people is out
of danger, two people are in critical condition, the Mehr news agency
reported. The flight data recorder was found. The flight controlling
service reported that the crew did not inform about any emergency
situation.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad expressed condolences to the
relatives of killed and injured people. He instructed the Transport
Ministry to carry out a detailed investigation into the air crash, the
Iranian television reported.
Official sources call the bad weather as the preliminary theory of the
air crash. The Iran Air Boeing-727 was on a flight from Tehran to
Orumiyeh, an administrative centre of the Iranian province West
Azerbaijan. Amid a heavy snowfall and a thick fog the crew failed to land
the airliner at the first attempt. The tragedy occurred when the airliner
was sliding down for a landing at 7.45 local time (7.15 Moscow time) on
Sunday. The airliner crash landed seven kilometres away from the city of
Orumiyeh near the southern bank of the Orumiyeh Lake.
This flight from the Iranian capital was delayed for two hours over
heavy snowfalls in northern Iran. Two other flights from Tehran to
Orumiyeh were cancelled on Sunday.
.Power utilities restore power supply on 4 lines in Moscow region.
MOSCOW, January 10 (Itar-Tass) -- Power utility workers have restored
power supplies along four power lines in the Moscow Region over the past
day, but repair teams faced a new problem of vandals hampering their work,
a spokesman for the Moscow United Power Grid Company Vitaly Strugovets
told Itar-Tass on Sunday.
Electric power supplies were restored on nine power lines out of 12
power lines cut from power supplies on Friday evening, he noted.
The restoration works continued on the power lines with a lower
voltage.
Meanwhile, Strugovets noted that power utility workers reported a
strange case at about 7 p.m. Moscow time on Sunday. Unidentified hooligans
cut off the broken wire on the power lines damaged by the fallen trees.
"While thousands of power utility workers not only from the Moscow Region,
but also from many other Russian regions are cleaning up the aftermath of
the natural disaster, the vandals have stolen 200 meters of copper cable
with a total weight of 150 kilograms on Sunday in the Leninsky district,
where an emergency was announced," the spokesman said.
"They believed that no one would notice them and cut off the cable,
probably seeking to sell it later," he assumed. Strugovets emphasized that
power utility workers have already informed the law enforcement agencies
about the incident and hope for the soonest detention of the offenders.
.Search for Partner schooner in Sea of Japan in vain for third day.
MOSCOW, January 10 (Itar-Tass) -- The search for the Partner fishing
schooner, which gave the SOS signals, has been on for the third day in the
Tatar Strait in the north of the Sea of Japan (the East Sea), but she has
not been found yet.
The motor ships Pioneer of Kholmsk of the Sakhalin shipping company
and Chelyabinsk of the Far Eastern shipping company are searching for a
Cambodia-flagged small fishing vessel with a displacement of about 300
tonnes with the shipowner registered in Belize. Three ground teams of
rescuers are searching through the Sakhalin western coast. Some 74 people
and 14 units of machinery are involved in the search operation.
The Partner crew consists of 14 Russian citizens, the Russian maritime
rescue and coordination centre told Itar-Tass.
The Partner crew most likely died, chief of the Russian Fishery Agency
Andrei Krainy told reporters on Sunday. He elaborated that this fishing
vessel was poaching. "No one aboard such poaching vessels thinks about the
vessel, survival suits and life rafts," he noted. Meanwhile, the crewmen
have no chances to survive without this safety equipment in chilly water
of 2-3 degrees Celsius and 3.5-meter-high waves. "Therefore, the fate of
the Partner crew is most likely tragic," Krany said.
He also noted that this fishing vessel was arrested last October, but
then just replaced the documents and kept poaching. "This is a pressing
problem, as the vessels under the flags of third countries are sailing in
our economic zone. They are not equipped with technical control equipment
so that they are not giving a signal to the satellite and are only
poaching," Krainy pointed out.
The Partner fishing vessel gave the SOS signals on January 7. The crew
managed to give the only radio message, "This is the Partner in distress.
The ship is sinking. The only life raft went out of order." After that the
radio contact was lost, but a radio station at the Vanino port received
the SOS signals. The search was launched immediately. Neither the vessel
nor the crew have been found yet.
-0-baz
