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Sulaimaniyah: Search under way for German
business jet missing
17.2.2006
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SULAIMANIYAH, Kurdistan-Iraq Feb 17, (AFP) - A
small civilian aircraft, en route from Azerbaijan to
Iraqi Kurdistan, is missing in mountainous of
Kurdistan (northern Iraq) and search teams have been
dispatched to look for it, the director of
Sulaimaniyah airport told AFP.
We lost radio contact at 11:14 pm (1914 GMT) with
the private plane which was transporting five
Azerbaijani businessmen and have not heard from the
plane since," Kamaran Ahmad Abdallah said Friday.
Interior ministry troops and Kurdish militiamen have
been dispatched to an area near the Iranian border,
some 100 kilometres (65 miles) north of the town of
Halabja, to search for the missing plane, he said. |
C501 Cessna jet |
AP reports that at least four Germans and a Kurd
were believed to be aboard a small German-registered
business jet missing in mountainous northern Iraq,
the director of Sulaimaniyah airport said Friday.
The weather was snowy at the time contact was lost
with the pilot, he added.
Sulaimaniyah airport, some 330 kilometres (205
miles) north of Baghdad (Iraq), was recently opened
to international flights.
AFP
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