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Air crash in the United Arab Emirates: engine reversal apparently caused accident

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - The aircraft was in bad maintenance conditions

Apparently, a sudden engine reversal caused the Fokker 50 of the Iranian airline Kish to crash on 10 February 2.5 miles (4 km) from the runway of the Sharjah airport, in the United Arab Emirates, killing 43 of 46 people onboard (see AVIONEWS). From the analysis of the airplane black boxes, which contained the recording of the conversations held by the pilots and the control tower at Sharjah, no sos...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 60899
Rome, Italy, 03/29/2004 18:26
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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