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U.S. military: Plane crashes in
Kurdistan-Iraq with 4 Germans confirmed
18.2.2006
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SULAIMANIYAH, Kurdistan-Iraq - A small plane
carrying at least four passengers, three of them
German, crashed in mountainous Kurdistan (northern
Iraq) near the city of Halabja on Thursday en route
to Kurdistan-Iraq from Azerbaijan, U.S. and Iraqi
officials said on Friday.
"I can confirm it was a
civilian plane and that the plane crashed," a
spokesman for the U.S. military in Iraq said.
Kameran Ahmad, the director of Sulaiymaniyah
airport, said aviation officials lost contact with
the plane on Thursday when it was flying at 8,000
feet in Kurdistan (northern Iraq).
According to PNA, Kameran Ahmad, confirmed that all
passengers on board not survive the crash.
Ahmad told Reuters that he had received an email the
day before the plane was due to arrive and that it
listed the passengers as four Germans and an Iraqi.
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C501 Cessna jet |
"The pilot had had no problems until that point. We
called it several times. Contacted Kirkuk base and
other alternative airports but nobody had heard from
it. We are still looking for it."
Peter McHugh, transportation counselor at the U.S.
embassy in Iraq, told Reuters there were three,
rather than four Germans on board along with a
fourth passenger and two crew.
A police spokesman in the southern German state of
Bavaria told Reuters that the Cessna plane was
carrying three German employees from a company from
a town to the north of Munich, along with an Iraqi
business partner and two pilots.
He said the plane belonged to the company and the
passengers were on a business trip. He declined to
name the company.
The plane flew from Munich to Azerbaijan and was on
its way to northern Iraq. Germany's Foreign Ministry
said the plane was en route from Baku to Iraq when
it went missing.
Reuters - AFP - PNA
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