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To: energyplay who wrote (2489)	11/29/2005 8:58:00 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217764

"El Mat on his way to Brazil" In the Hilton out of Terminal $. Have to hand around for my night flight. The crowd dresses neatly. The service is as TJ put: of defenetely forign origin.

To: energyplay who wrote (2489)	11/29/2005 11:40:55 PM
From: Cogito Ergo Sum	Respond to of 217764

ROTF... ep You make the rockin' world go round K

To: energyplay who wrote (2489)	12/6/2005 10:41:04 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 217764

Got closer!! Plane crashes into Tehran tower block, killing 119. An Iranian military transport plane crashed into an apartment block as it was trying to make an emergency landing today, smashing a hole in the top of the building and setting it ablaze. Elmat is safe in Brazil etraing like a pig to recover his weight!!! Plane crashes into Tehran tower block, killing 119. By Philippe Naughton An Iranian military transport plane crashed into an apartment block as it was trying to make an emergency landing today, smashing a hole in the top of the building and setting it ablaze. At least 119 people were killed, including all 94 people on board the plane, most of them Iranian journalists heading to cover military manoeuvres in the south. Twenty five residents of the apartment building also died, and 90 were injured, Tehran state radio said. A large gash was torn in the top floor of the 10-storey building. Flames leaped out of windows from the roof and several other floors as panicked residents fled the Towhid residential complex, a series of high-rise apartment buildings for army personnel in the Azadi suburb of Tehran. Wreckage rained down, hitting a nearby gas station, police said. Cars parked below were smashed by falling debris. At the foot of the blackened building, what appeared to be a pile of wreckage was in flames. Firefighters managed to put out the fire in the building, which was damaged and charred but still standing. Police cordoned off the air, preventing journalists and a crowd of thousands of people from nearing the site. Many in the crowd were screaming, afraid their relatives had been killed. "It was like an earthquake," said Reza Sadeqi, a 25-year-old merchant, who saw the plane hit the building. "The force of the crash threw me about 3 metres (9 ft) inside my shop. I felt the heat of the fire caused by the crash. It was like being in hell." The C-130 aircraft had just taken off from the nearby Mehrabad airport en route to Bandar Abbas, a port city in southern Iran. It experienced a technical problem and was returning the Mehrabad for an emergency landing when it hit the building, state-run television said. The plane, which belonged to the army air force, carried 84 passengers and 10 crew members, Iranian television reported. All aboard were killed, the mayor of Tehran, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, told The Associated Press. Iran’s air force is believed to have no more than around 15 of the US-made C-130s in operation, having acquired the planes before the 1979 Islamic revolution. Since then, Iran has been subject to tough US sanctions, hindering the purchase of critical spare parts for all US-made planes in its air force and in the civilian national airline, Iran Air. A C-130 crashed near Tehran due to technical problems in June 2003, killing seven people. In 1997, a C-130 crashed near the northwestern city of Mashhad after encountering engine trouble, killing 86 people, and in February 2000 another air force C-130 crashed on take-off and collided with an Iran Air Airbus 300, killing ten people. Iran has also suffered a number of civilian air disasters. In April, an Iranian airlines Boeing 707 with 157 people aboard skidded off a runway at Tehran airport and caught fire, killing three people. Last year, a Ukrainian-built aircraft carrying aerospace scientists crashed in central Iran, killing all 44 people aboard. In 2003, a Russian-made Ilyushin-76 carrying members of the elite Revolutionary Guards crashed in the mountains of southeastern Iran, killing 302 people. And in 1988, an Iran Air A300 Airbus was shot down by USS Vincennes over the Persian Gulf, killing 290.