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Date: 2022-06-24 00:00:00

Crashes, Bankruptcy Litter Iran's Runway For Passenger-Plane Production

Iran is planning to manufacture airliners in an attempt to skirt U.S. sanctions and upgrade its decrepit fleet of passenger aircraft. But Iran has a tragic history when it comes to producing passenger planes, with the last attempt grounded by a lack of engineering expertise and a string of crashes.

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