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Iraq finds wreck of German jet
19/02/2006 18:10 - (SA)
Sulaimaniyah - Iraq found the wreckage of a German business jet on Sunday in the northern Kurdistan region after the plane went missing earlier this week with six passengers on board, said a senior Kurdish security official.
He said the wreckage was found in Arbat, 30km northeast of Sulaimaniyah in Iraqi Kurdistan.
"We have found two parts of the plane and a bag and our search is continuing in the vicinity of the village of Bushein," in the Arbat region, said the official.
Iraq had launched a massive hunt for the German-registered plane in the mountainous terrain of northern Iraq after it went missing on Thursday night, 100km north of the town of Halabja, in the Kurdish province of Sulaimaniyah.
An Iraqi border force official suggested on Saturday it might have gone down in neighbouring Iran.
The twin-engine C501 Cessna jet had taken off on Tuesday from Munich with five Germans from a Bavarian firm, the pilot, and an Iraqi, German police said. It stopped in Baku, Azerbaijan, before flying on to northern Iraq.
- AFP
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