See ASW 23 Jun 03 (primary) and 06 Jan 03 Final report on the accident of 6 November 2002 at Luxembourg to the Luxair Fokker 27 MK050 registered LX – LGB - appendices [PDF 10,5MB] http://www.etat.lu/TR/aviation/acc/Finalreportappendices.pdf Final report on the accident of 6 Novembre 2002 at Luxembourg to the Luxair Fokker 27 MK050 registered LX – LGB [PDF 1,6 MB] http://www.etat.lu/TR/aviation/acc/Finalreportwoappendices.pdf ________________________________________________________________________ Similarity to the Luxair F50 accident? 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. € tm/bp/mb €AFP 021307 GMT MAR 04 ______________________________________________________________________ The "manufacturer" has also issued an "all operator message" stating that preliminary FDR and CVR recordings point into the direction of the reverse blade angle of the props. This was also the case in the Luxair F50 crash. Further similarities, if any, will come forward as the investigation progresses.