“Pilot Killed While Flying Experimental Plane”
By Kamangir • Nov 19th, 2007 • Category: Iran, Islamic Republic
There are unverified, but strong, reports that an Iranian pilot has lost his life in a plane crash deliberately kept secret from the public.
On September 23rd, as every year, Iranian cities were the scene of military shows, to acknowledge the ignition of the eight-year war with Iraq (see: Big Military Show in Iran and pictures from the show in Tehran and its vicinity). Reportedly, during the show, two Tazarv jets flew over Khomeini’s shrine [Persian]. Tazarv, meaning Eagle in Persian, is an experimental airplane developed by the Islamic Republic (Source: Global Security). According to a Persian source, three planes were supposed to carry out the flight. However, the day before the show, one of them experiences a technical problem and crashes. Following a fault in the ejection process, one of the pilots of the plane or both of them are killed in the accident [Persian].
There is no official report about the accident, or that it has not happened, but the fact that a fortieth-day condolence is published in an Iranian newspaper, around forty days after the show, has made many people suspicious [Persian]. The referred announcement is about a “martyred pilot”, indicating that he has indeed been killed during a military operation. The name of the deceased pilot is Mojtaba Mir Asgari (سید مجتبی میر عسگری).
See more pictures of Tazarv in the photoblog.
Update: Baoba believes that Tazarv means Pheasant and not Eagle.
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where is ur evidence?
Kamangir: I have explicitly mentioned that these are “unverified, but strong, reports”. If you can read Persian, which I think you can, please follow the links to the Persian sources.
I always was in doubt why you write these things in you blog. After hossein explanation about the projects that you are involved, and money that you gain and have gained. Now, I know that you are a traitor. Sell your country your friends and anything, but do not sell them cheap. That’s your life, enjoy it.
Kamangir: Sir, I am not involved in any project and I do not make money out of blogging. My source of income is a scientific scholarship. Please provide an evidence for your claim or you owe me an apology.
Dear Arash,
Tazare is not an eagle. It’s pheasant which is a bird being famous for its colored feathers. It’s called gharghawol in Farsi, too.
Kamangir: Thanks, I trusted the translation of Global Security.
Ù‘You may check Dehkhoda or Moeein, as well.
:»)
somebody: Anyone who supports the Islamic Republic is a traitor and enemy of Iran and Iranians. Derakshan and your ilk will have to stand trial before an international court if there is any justice in this world.
Spy,
how much you sell your land?
Kamangir: Let’s talk about it, if you will.
Hey Archer,
Don’t bother with Bibbig & somebody.
Their definition for traitor is “anybody who does not agree with everything IRI says and does.”
However the truer definition of traitor may be “anybody who is actively helping in making worse and willfully disregarding the wellbeing of his country and the wellbeing of people of his country”
Does the unthinking condemnation of any criticism of IRI government makes the life of Iranian people better or worse?
Worse, I think, so who really is the traitor?
I just love how those jets are painted Americas ‘Red, White, and Blue’. I’m kind of amazed that they didn’t paint pretty stars on the planes too.
Oh, also, those ‘experimental’ jets look sooooo immature. They look like the 2nd semester trainers that American pilots learn to fly in.
I think a 2nd year aeronautical engineer could have designed those planes..
Hey Bigbig,
I don’t think Kamangir has any control over that land to sell any of it. Why don’t you tell us how much your master, IRI, has received for selling the Caspian Sea and its resources recently?
I’m sure Israeli F-16’s and American F-22’s are shaking in their boots at the site of those.