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To: KLP who wrote (75694)	2/19/2003 5:04:44 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 281500

Update: Plane Carrying at Least 270 People Crashes in Iran----most passengers appear to be elite Revolutionary Guards...defenders of Iran's revolutionary regime --- By Ali Akbar Dareini Associated Press Writer Feb 19, 2003 TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - A plane carrying 270 passengers, most of them members of the elite Revolutionary Guards, crashed in the mountains of southeastern Iran on Wednesday and all on board were believed dead, state-run Tehran television reported. The flight was en route from Zahedan, on the Pakistan border, to Kerman, about 500 miles southeast of Tehran. It crashed about 50 miles from its destination, near the city of Shahdad. The television report said the plane lost contact with the control tower at 5:30 p.m. Television quoted an anonymous official as saying the forces had visited the impoverished Sistan-Baluchestan province, of which Zahedan is the capital, for an "important mission." The Revolutionary Guards are seen as the defenders of Iran's Islamic regime. The report said the plane was a Russian-made Antonov airliner. There were no more details available on the crash. Wednesday's crash was the latest in a string of air disasters in Iran mostly involving Russian-built aircraft. A Ukrainian An-140 aircraft flew into a mountainside Dec. 23, 2002, while preparing to land at an airport near the central city of Isfahan, killing all the estimated 46 scientists aboard. In February 2002, a Russian-made Tupolev Tu-154 airliner, carrying 119 people, smashed into snow-covered mountains not far from its destination of Khorramabad, 230 miles southwest of Tehran. In 1988, 290 people died when an Iran Air A300 Airbus was mistakenly shot down by the USS Vincennes over the Persian Gulf. AP-ES-02-19-03 1606EST This story can be found at: ap.tbo.com