While I have no reason to doubt this is the ex China Airlines A300B, my question is, how the hell do you scrap an A300 at MZJ, then manage to move all of it to Jordan..? Barge, see miracle on the Hudson... OK a barge is only going to get you so far into a land locked country.. Jordan is not land-lo...
Jump to post@dcajet I understand your points and agree with most. Nevertheless, the question remains: what is CONVIASA doing or planning to do with the A340s. They are hardly flying, yet they keep getting more. When they do fly, (predictably) it is to Damascus, Havana, Moscow and Tehran. The odd one out is the ...
Jump to postIt is correct that Mahan Air can lease or sell aircraft to whichever entity it wants. It is also correct that it is connected to the Iranian government (almost anything of importance domestically is). Use of a 4-engined wide-body aircraft to operate short domestic routes is neither new, nor should b...
Jump to postOne of the two ex French AIr Force A340-212 that last MAY2023 made their way to Iran's IRGC affiliated airline, Mahan Air, triangulated via Mali, has now been dry leased to Venezuela's CONVIASA. The 28-years old frame operated for the French Government as F-RAJB and was originally delivered to Aust...
Jump to postDoes anybody know why Mahan would lease its newest (A340-600), and other aircraft to CONVIASA? They Iranian fleet is badly hurting for modern aircraft. As the ownership of these aircraft remains with Mahan, they are at risk of being seized at third nation airports. This happened with a 747-300 that ...
Jump to postOther than the livery (and seat density on some planes), there is no difference between Turkish and AnadoluJet. The latter does not have it's own AOC, crew or other operations. AnadoluJet is a merely "a Trademark of Turkish Airlines", as written on the fuselage. I flew on one about two mon...
Jump to post[quote="WayexTDI"][quote="Noshow"] The only civilian Western Outside Cargo Transporter available right now is the A300-600ST (a.k.a. Beluga)./quote] And the A330 Beluga XL, if I am not mistaken. Airbus seems to be planning to use those increasingly for its own use and offer the A...
Jump to postEP-MND was actually repaired and returned to the fleet. Given the age and the damage, it is hard to believe. Then again the Iranian MRO shops are experts in keeping "ancient" aircraft going.
YV3531 appears to indeed be ex EP-MND.
The choice is not with the Ukrainian carriers themself. The government of Ukraine has imposed the ban. They are very unhappy with the Iranian investigation of the downing of PS 752. The compensation talks have been going poorly as well. The issue with safety of Iranian airspace seems to have been re...
Jump to postWith the ALL Russian components now of the MC21 is there of any hope of sales to Air Koryo or Cubana? The much much bigger market is Iran. With hundreds of Airbus, ATR and Boeing aircraft on order undeliverable upon the re-impossition of the crushing US sanctions, Iran needs other sources. For two ...
Jump to postNo Ukrainian air carrier flies to or operates over Iran since the shoot-down of PS 752, in January 2020. The information must be outdated.
Jump to postThis has been going on since LH restarted flights to IKA. The inbound flight stays overnight. The one already on the ground from 24-36 prior does the return flight. Of course, there is surplus of aircraft so the two plane approach is feasible. I am still not clear as to why they are employing such a...
Jump to postIn the 50s the Shah ordered a Morane-Solnier “Paris Jet” for his personal use....a 4 seat “very light jet” type of affair. His son prince Ali Reza was killed in a 1954 plane crash in the Elburz Mtns....could have been in this Paris Jet but I can’t confirm. Elburz Mtns: are Alborz Mountain Range Sha...
Jump to postEP-ICC for Iran Air (although I think it’s a 747-2J9F not a 747-286F — using the Iranian AF/Saha Air customer code, not Iran Air) does not have a SCD You are correct. The aircraft, and its two sister ships, were ordered by and delivered directly to the Iranian Air Force. EP-ICC was in true Iran Air...
Jump to postThe turbulence theory is also possible, a F-15 is not a small machine and it spews a lot of fire. If close enough it can upset an A310 for sure. Absolutely. the F-15 has 2 PW F100 engines, each of them with 106 kN of trust. These engines have more thrust than the PW ones on the 727 and the 737 orig...
Jump to postSheikh: AF1 didn't know that the F16s were friendly until they were very close. All they knew was that there were some "fast movers" approaching. Intelligence had picked up chatter that "Angel was next." Angel was the mostly-secret code word for AF1 at the time. Threats could ha...
Jump to postI’d be very surprised if the fighter jets weren’t announcing themselves on 121.5 guard frequency. Quite likely. CVR will tell. And of course the USAF comms records, if they choose to release them. The may very well do it to show that all was done correctly. Last time there was an encounter between ...
Jump to postMahan flight crew could've panicked momentarily sending the plane into a sudden maneuver. Saying this was a deliberate act by the U.S. pilot is pure nonsense. Possibly. Probably. We don't know "sense" or "non-sense" until all the data are in and fully analyzed. Assuming anything...
Jump to postI agree. Nothing clearly seen in the videos and still photos show that fighter was dangerously close. From both the published scientific literature and my own professional experience, I know that eyewitness are generally anything but. Another possibility I thought of (which can be easily proven or d...
Jump to postIn terms of "close", this is how close the F-16s flew when escorting Air Force One into Andrews on 9/11. That's the wingtip of AF1, and that's a DC Air National Guard F-16. No problem. The aircraft in the Mahan Air story were nowhere near that close, just close enough to see with their ow...
Jump to postThe background audio during the F15 breaking off is not clear. The guy with face shield states: {We are on board the Mahan flight, Tehran to Beirut and in the Syrian space were approached by a fighter aircraft. The Mahan Air pilot decrease altitude to avoid collision]. The injured man sitting by a w...
Jump to postHave the US commented yet. I don’t speak Farsi, so can’t understand passengers. . I do. The correct English term for the "Farsi" language is Persian. One does"t say "I don't speak Espanol or Deutsch". They are Spanish and German. As far as safety of flight (purely factual a...
Jump to postIran Air has only a single example (EP-CBD) that is operational (though parked currently as part of the travel downturn). Fun fact, this is one of the Chinese frames built at SAIC. Wonder if it's the last one (out of 20 Chinese built IIRC) to survive? Iran Air Tours has three of them as well. In an...
Jump to postAt the end of the day, much of technology becomes obsolete. The lamenting of the passage of DC-9, MD-80 and MD-90 to the scrap heaps likely pivots on nostalgia and fear of our own mortality. Ironically, the DC-9 fuselage (or something darn close to it) is still being produced for the ARJ21 Frankenst...
Jump to postDon't understand the hostility. I certainly did not imply that the Fokker F28 series are inherently unsafe. To the contrary, I have flown on them many times and have not stopped yet. Also, I did say that we will know for certain the cause (s) only when the The accident investigation reports regardin...
Jump to postCurrent weather showing mist and visibility of 1000m. Temperature -11C. First flight of the morning - ice perhaps? That was my first thought as well. Not sure if the aircraft was de-iced. The photos from the crash scene shows a light amount of snow on the ground. The failure to de-ice was the cause...
Jump to postlooks very similar to a landing incident on an essentially new Iran Air EP-ITD at Tehran-Mehrabad a couple of weeks back. Landing became unstable as the wheels were touching down on the tarmac, according to the commander. Crew were not aware of the tail strike until a passenger notified them as he/s...
Jump to postDo theh actually flight fill up a 747 on domestic flights? Yes. I have rarely been on a flight of any size that has been less than 90% full. The Tehran-Mashhad route is particularly heavy, with 15-20 flights a day, ranging from RJ-85 to 747. I just checked and there are actually 290 flights a week ...
Jump to postDon't they do cargo flights to Syria? No, at least not as all cargo flights. Mahan has not had a pure freighter in nearly 2 decades. The typical aircraft for the IKA-DAM sector is the A-310. Would stand to reason than there is some room for cargo. To my knowledge, their larger aircraft, i.e. Airbus...
Jump to postc3000flyboy wrote:Do theh actually flight fill up a 747 on domestic flights?
The international flights are highly unlikely, given that there is a UK court ruling that all three Mahan -400s are to be confiscated. The other two have been slated to re-start service for sometime as well. I suspect that if they have adequate parts, they will bring them back to active status very ...
Jump to post@Aesema: I thought so too: AAIB will be involved because of the RR engines. The Iran CAO notice though specifically states “the country of manufacture of landing gear.” They might have made that statement in error. There were two landing gear manufacturers: Messier Dowty and Goodrich Aerospace, as I...
Jump to postMany thanks for translating A300! Pleasure. I am happy to translate any Persian-language civil aviation document, so long as it is in public domain and written either in Afghan or Iranian Persian. Tajik Persian uses Cyrillic alphabet that I cannot easily read. Not just IR...it's pretty well known i...
Jump to postThe US sanctions against Iran are handled by OFAC, within the Treasury. They have issued blanket licenses for certain transactions. These include overflight charges, consular fees and importation/exportation of death people! US-registered aircraft overfly Iran all the time, particularly FedEx and UP...
Jump to postIran CAO put out an accident notice out the next day, 20 March 2019, in Persian (I am fully fluent in Persian). I am sure the final report will be in English since foreign investigation agencies are to join. Damage: substantial, candidate write-off EP-IDG 49489 TH 51036 TC as of 01FEB2019 (end of A5...
Jump to postIran CAO put out an accident notice out the next day, 20 March 2019, in Persian (I am fully fluent in Persian). I am sure the final report will be in English since foreign investigation agencies are to join. Damage: substantial, candidate write-off EP-IDG 49489 TH 51036 TC as of 01FEB2019 (end of A5...
Jump to postDidn't realize that. For some reason, I still figured they had some of their east Asian flights. So sad. :( Mahan Air has developed a relatively extensive Far East/Souteast Asia network from IKA. Despite the sanctions (if stricter than the ones on IR), they have been able to add multiple A340-300 a...
Jump to postIR does nit have any LR flight any more. T Didn't realize that. For some reason, I still figured they had some of their east Asian flights. So sad. :( Mahan Air has developed a relatively extensive Far East/Souteast Asia network from IKA. Despite the sanctions (if stricter than the ones on IR), the...
Jump to postThere won’t be much of an issue. ~15 years ago a NW DC-10 actually had an emergency diversion to Tehran. They were still able to get things checked out and pay for fuel (I think diversion was a false alarm). Plane and passengers got out. Northwest Flight 41 in June 2005 from Mumbai-Amsterdam. Yep, ...
Jump to postWhat happens with the PAX? If most of them are Norwegian, will they lose the ESTA privilege for their next visit to the US because they have visited Iran? I would think they are in an "sterile" transit area and have not officially crossed Iranian immigration check. This was how the NW pas...
Jump to postI don't see why the part would require an OFAC license. It is a Norwegian-flagged aircraft in the fleet of a non-Iranian legal entity. The ban not only includes named Iranian operators, but Iran as a whole. And also includes export of testing / diagnostic equipment, and trained technicians and tech...
Jump to postI feel bad for that recovery team. That is going to be a PITA to get in there and fix the jet and get back out. I"m sure the parking fees are going to be a bit inflated as well. Again, I don't see a major disaster. Compared to the cost of engine, crew and mechanics' salaries, the parking fees ...
Jump to postSection 560.528 of the ITR provides that specific licenses may be issued, on a case-bycase basis, for the exportation and reexportation of goods, services and technology to insure the safety of civil aviation and safe operation of U.S.-origin commercial passenger aircraft. https://www.treasury.gov/...
Jump to postmaybe Iran air will buy some now the sanctions prohibit them from buying US en European planes. Didn’t they order some IL-96 and a few TU-204s back a decade ago? Apparently not, they've only western planes in their fleet. Never understood why this is the case. The PS-90 engines were not appropriate...
Jump to postI think that the A-310 relatively low sales figure should be taken in context: the A-310 was not a separate model. It was a sub-model of the A-300. In fact it was initially known as the A300B10. Many of the updated features of the A310 were then used in the A300B4-600 series. If you like, there were...
Jump to postAn old workhorse is given a fresh update. Glad to see it. Maybe this will spur on others to do the same. Narrowbody capacity is hard to get these days. 737-200s would be pennies on the dollar. As long as your sectors aren't long, the fuel bill would be palitable. Proof of concept for Iran's Plan B ...
Jump to postKarun Airlines (formerly Iran Naft and NIOC)
F-100
EP-AWZ (Ahwaz)
EP-MIS (Masjid Soleiman)
EP-SUS (Susa)
An Iranian Air Force Il-76 killed more than the Algerian one — there is a way of using the Il-76 as a trooper, can’t recall exactly how it’s done as all my flights on the Il-76 have been freighters. I think it does involve a second tier, some kind of temporary structure that soldiers can sit on abo...
Jump to postPetalumaFlyer21 wrote:SR380 wrote:PetalumaFlyer21 wrote:When I went there, Iran Air had retired it’s last Boeing 747
I re-read the preliminary report:
It appears that the main cause to have been CFIT, possibly due to VFR approach in IFR environment (not icing). Though a lot of discussion about icing and non-compliance with AD related to that is included in report.