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German plane might have crashed in Iran:
Kurdistan security
18.2.2006
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SULAIMANIYAH, Kurdistan-Iraq - A German business
jet, missing in Kurdistan (northern Iraq) for more
than a day, might have crashed across the border in
neighbouring Iran-Kurdistan, a local Iraqi border
force commander suggested.
"We arrived at the border and saw on the other side
Iranians with shovels standing around something we
think might be the wreckage of the plane," Colonel
Ahmed Ghraib, head of the border force in Iraqi
Kurdistan's region, told AFP on Saturday.
"We have been in touch with the Iranians but have
received no answer yet."
A massive hunt was underway Saturday in the
mountainous terrain northeast of Sulaimaniyah for
the plane that disappeared in snowy conditions
Thursday night. |
C501 Cessna jet |
The twin-engine C501 Cessna jet had taken off
Tuesday from Munich with five Germans from a
Bavarian firm, including the pilot, and an Iraqi,
German police said. It stopped in Baku, Azerbaijan,
before flying on to Kurdistan (northern Iraq).
AFP
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