<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fa6d99f0-eb8a-477b-81b0-ca753e5d32e5/DFD32A30-A961-4BD4-A3D0-F554BB979C99/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/od_afp/iranaviationoffbeat_20091029161322" href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/od_afp/iranaviationoffbeat_20091029161322" style="font-size: 11px;">news.yahoo.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/od_afp/iranaviationoffbeat_20091029161322"><P>TEHRAN (AFP) – A worried Iranian <SPAN id="lw_1256833060_0" class="yshortcuts">airline pilot</SPAN> asked passengers to start praying after his plane was hit by a technical glitch early on Thursday, highlighting once again the notorious record of Tehran's aircraft.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/od_afp/iranaviationoffbeat_20091029161322"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/news.yahoo.com/img/7CEAC4D1-5323-475D-A2FD-424A9DC876AE" alt="Worried Iran pilot asks passengers to pray" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/od_afp/iranaviationoffbeat_20091029161322">The <SPAN id="lw_1256833060_1" class="yshortcuts">Aseman Airlines Boeing plane</SPAN> had taken off from Tehran airport after a six-hour delay, but had to return following a technical fault, the <SPAN id="lw_1256833060_2" class="yshortcuts">ISNA news agency</SPAN> quoted a passenger as recounting.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/od_afp/iranaviationoffbeat_20091029161322"><P> "The plane took off at 0015 in the morning and had to land back in <SPAN id="lw_1256833060_3" class="yshortcuts">Tehran</SPAN> after 45 minutes," the passenger said.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/od_afp/iranaviationoffbeat_20091029161322">The pilot told the passengers 'the plane is facing a technical problem and has to return. So please pray.'"</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/od_afp/iranaviationoffbeat_20091029161322"><SPAN id="lw_1256833060_4" class="yshortcuts">Iran</SPAN> has been under years of international sanctions hampering its ability to buy modern planes from major manufacturers, such as Boeing and <SPAN id="lw_1256833060_5" class="yshortcuts">Airbus</SPAN>, or spare parts, and has suffered a number of <SPAN id="lw_1256833060_6" class="yshortcuts">air disasters</SPAN> over the past decade.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091029/od_afp/iranaviationoffbeat_20091029161322"><P> Its civil and military fleet is made up of ancient aircraft in very poor condition due to their age, and lack of maintenance.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/DFD32A30-A961-4BD4-A3D0-F554BB979C99/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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