US aircraft violates Iran air space
Press Tv / Press TV
07-Oct-2008 (3 comments)

A US Falcon airplane has been forced to land in an Iranian airport after violating the Islamic Republic's air space, officials say

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Iran Says.......!!!

by darius on Tue Oct 07, 2008 07:20 AM PDT

Folks, I saw this report  in Liveleak and it was quoted from Press Tv. I just posted it for  read, checked to see if it has been  reported anywhere else, I found no confirmation.The web site offers no more detail thereofre it could be unreliable .



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Dassalutl Falcon is French

by steel (not verified) on Tue Oct 07, 2008 11:21 AM PDT

Iran says it forced down Western plane

The U.S. military's Central Command said in a statement from its headquarters in Doha, Qatar that no American plane was involved in the incident, as some Iranian media initially reported.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hasan Qashqavi said he had no information about the case. Other Iranian officials could not immediately be reached for comment.

The official quoted by Al-Alam said the plane "lost its way" and violated Iranian air space. He said the passengers — who he said included American military personnel — were questioned and that the plane was allowed to continue to Afghanistan.

It was not clear when the incident took place. Al-Alam reported the plane was forced to land on Sunday and left the next day. The semi-official news agency ISNA said the forced landing was on Sept. 30 and the departure the following day.

In Afghanistan, officials with the U.S. military, the American Embassy and the British Embassy said they had no information about a plane being forced down in Iran.

Initially, the semiofficial Fars news agency said the plane was American. Fars reported that the plane was carrying five military officials and three civilians from Turkey to Afghanistan when it "unintentionally" entered Iranian airspace.

According to the Fars report, Iranian fighters guided the plane to an Iranian airport, the passengers were questioned and a day later were released and allowed to continue to their destination.

ISNA said the aircraft was carrying "military personnel" but cited an unidentified official saying the plane was not American.

Fars said the plane was a Falcon, apparently referring to a passenger aircraft manufactured by the French firm Dassault and primarily used by business executives. Dassault Falcon produces five jets with ranges from about 3,250 nautical to more than 4,000 nautical miles, with cabins that typically carry about six passengers and two crew members.

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Not American

by darius on Tue Oct 07, 2008 07:34 AM PDT

This was posted a minute ago by reuters uk;

TEHRAN (Reuters) - An Iranian state television station on Tuesday
said a plane that was forced to land in Iran was Hungarian, not a U.S.
military plane as reported earlier by a semi-official Iranian news
agency.

Iran's Arabic-language al-Alam satellite station, citing a military
source, also said there had been no U.S. military officials on board,
as it had earlier reported.

(Reporting by Parisa Hafezi; Writing by Fredrik Dahl; Editing by Kevin Liffey)

 


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