Iraqi official: Rehabilitation of the Iraqi planes landing at Amman's airport very soon
Iraq-Jordan, Politics, 7/31/2001

An Iraqi diplomat in Amman has stressed that a technical team from his country will start very soon the rehabilitation of the Iraqi planes, landed at Amman's International airport since the year 1990.

The diplomat indicated that the technical team will decide the possibility of rehabilitation of planes that were suspended from work since more than 10 years.

For his part, the director general of the civil aviation authority in Jordan Captain Jihad Arsheed said it is difficult to rehabilitate the Iraqi planes landed at the Amman's airport because they have many defects, stressing that the ability of these planes to fly is impossible.

He added that the rehabilitation of these planes require very huge sums of money and exceed the value of buying it for several times, and this is according to technical tests made recently on these planes.

So far, the total cost of rehabilitating the 6 Iraqi planes, owned by the Iraqi airlines, has not been estimated yet.

The Iraqi authorities seek to restore back its planes which are stationed in airports of other countries and is facing political problems with Iran because of this matter.

However, the smart sanctions project which the US and Britain tried recently to perpetuate stated to obligate the countries on whose territories there are Iraqi planes, to sell these planes and allocate its price at a special account run by the Secretary General of the UN.

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