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DUBAI, March 2 (AFP) - An Iranian Kish Airlines plane crashed,
killing 43 people, after the engines went into reverse and the pilot
lost control coming into land, the civil aviation authority said
here Tuesday.
€ "The engines went into reverse which would have made it
impossible to control" the Fokker 50 twin-turboprop aircraft as it
approached the international airport in the neighbouring emirate of
Sharjah on February 10, said a statement carried by the official WAM
news agency.
€ It did not say if the pilot put the engines into reverse or not,
promising "more details at the end of the inquiry."
€ The flight had come from Iran's Gulf island of Kish when it went
down in an open area between the villas of a crowded residential
zone about two miles (nearly four kilometres) from the airport, on
the border between Sharjah and Ajman, another emirate in the
seven-member UAE federation.
€ Only three of the 46 people on board survived the crash.
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€AFP 021307 GMT MAR 04