Iran Itek Air B737-200
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1Itek Air B737-200, Tehran Iran 2008NameAffiliation
2Itek Air B737-200 was a registered charter flight operated under the name of the IranAseman Airlines. It crashed on 24th August 2008 near the Manas International Airport ofKyrgyzstan while it was trying to land at its airport of origin i.e. at the Imam KhomeiniInternational Airport in Tehran, Iran while facing technical difficulties. Out of the eighty-threepassengers only twenty-one survived.MAK or the Interstate Aviation Authority attempted to retrieve the data from the voicerecorders in the cockpit but they were badly damaged by the fire, which destroyed most of theaircraft. When the MAK professionals tried to disassemble the casing of the tape recorder andthe voice recorder, they found those damaged however MAK still attempted to read the datafrom the damaged media.MAK has concluded that the crash came out as a result of the forward left cabin door notbeing closed properly by an engineer who was not listed under the Cabin Attendant Manual norwas he supposed to close the door. The aircraft lost cabin pressure because of this error howeverthis was just one of the many contributing factors to the crash. The Itek Air along with all its listed carriers is banned by the EU and isn’t allowed to flyover the territory of the European Union. Both the captain and the co-pilot were prosecuted and received five years and two monthssentences each against penal code for the crash. Their punishable mistakes involved trying toland with increased pressure in the cockpit and failure to maintain visual contact with therunaway, failure to monitor altitude and ignorance of automated warnings about terrainproximity. Other contributing factors to the accident include;Deviating from the Boeing 737-200 SOP as well as the PF/PM task sharing principle.
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