29 Mar 2024
Tuesday 6 September 2022 - 14:35
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Explained: Detention of 747 and Iranian crew in Argentina

Explained: Detention of 747 and Iranian crew in Argentina
In early August, the US Justice Department said it was seeking to seize a planethat was flying around South America. It was a Venezuelan 747 cargo jet, but itwas previously owned by an Iranian airline. It had been grounded in Argentinasince early June. The plane was stuck in Argentina, but some of its crew had leftthe country.

Iranian media has now published an account about the cargo plane. The son ofthe pilot has said that the occupying regime of Israel, the US and Argentine Jewsare behind a plot to keep the plane and its crew grounded.

The plane had been transferred from Iranian airline Mahan Air to Emtrasur, asubsidiary of Venezuelas state-owned Consorcio Venezolano de IndustriasAeronuticas y Servicios Areos or CONVIASA which is under US sanctions.

The cargo jet had arrived in Argentina on June 6 after a flight from Mexico. It hadalso tried to land in Uruguay. It had a crew of 14 Venezuelans and five Iranians.Two weeks after the reports emerged, Venezuelans protested against thegrounding of the plane.

The plane was detained with the coordination of the United States, the Zionistregime and England, Hossein, the son of the planes pilot Captain GholamrezaGhasemi told Fars news agency.

This incident was definitely planned because when the plane wants to fly, it mustalso have landing permits at the destination airport, transit permits from theroute countries, and alternative airports. Having the mentioned licenses meansthat airport, navigation, communication, refueling, firefighting and radio servicesmust be given to this plane under any circumstances, Hossein Ghasemi said.

The plane had permits to fly to Uruguay and had registered a flight path.

When the pilot flew to Uruguay, there was no problem until Uruguay did notallow the plane to land! The pilot was forced to land due to lack of fuel inArgentina, which is the backyard of the Zionists, he said.

His father, Hossein said, had flown with many airlines in the past and had flown toDubai, Damascus, Paris and other cities.

It was a year ago that the Boeing 747-300 cargo plane was sold to this country[Venezuela] due to the cooperation between Iran and Venezuela. For this reason,my father went to [Venezuela] to train the pilots on behalf of the Iranian CivilAviation Organization to the Venezuelan crew.

Iran has expertise in flying 747s because it has a number of them that date fromthe pre-Revolution era. These older planes are still flying and Iranian pilots havesome unique expertise in keeping them aloft and extending their abilities.

Due to his background and experience, my father was one of the two peoplewho could teach other people the different steps and how to work with thementioned airplane as a master pilot, Hossein Ghasemi said.

Hossein says that his father spent a year training the Venezuelans and he madevarious flights in South America.

He flew more than 100 times on different routes in Latin America. As a result,the presence of him and other Iranian crew in Latin America was not a new andstrange event, and it is quite natural that when a country buys an airplane, it usesthe master pilot of that country to transfer the technical knowledge of thatairplane, it is a very common thing in the world.

Then something went wrong. As opposition parties and others became aware ofthe plane, someone made a request to Uruguay. According to reports in June,Uruguays Interior Minister Luis Alberto Heber had said his country had received aformal warning from Paraguayan intelligence.

According to Fars, the occupying regime of Israel was responsible for the planebeing diverted.

During this work, all kinds of international and aviation laws were violated tomake this happen, Hossein Ghasemi said.

My father has both the experience of flying in the war zone in the holy defenseand the experience of commercial flights in different airlines. Of course, this is anatural thing, and pilots all over the world go to commercial flights after retiringfrom military flights. Most of the pilots in America and other countries are militaryat first and after retirement, they work in different airlines, that is, like thedifferent airlines that are around our country. In fact, no one can tell theAmerican, British and European pilots why they were engaged in military flightsbefore commercial flights, and they easily stay in Iran and other countries, hesaid.

In the interview with Al Mayadeen Espanol, Captain Ghasemi reiterated that he isa flight instructor and had no ties to the Iranian military except for fighting in theIran-Iraq War (1980-1988) as a volunteer in the Basij Popular Mobilization Forces.


The seizure of the plane took place as Venezuelas President Nicolas Maduro wason a trip to Iran on June 10. He was in the Islamic Republic to announce a 20-yeardeal with Iran.

The cargo plane was indeed grounded in that 48-hour period after it had landedbefore it could depart, as the Venezuelan leader was preparing for his own trip.

The Zionist regime and the United States were trying to create a story to disruptthe relations between Iran and Venezuela. For this reason, this caused the crew ofthe said flight to be taken hostage, Fars said.





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