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Most of the wreckage lay in a 100-yard radius. A wing lying about 1000 yards away was the only piece not charred and mangled when the turpo-prop aircraft fell to the ground shortly after takeoff from Bahawalpur airport...
...army brigadier who identified himself only as Zaidi said some eye-witnesses reported seeing the plane explode shortly after takeoff, but others said it was only smoking when it lost altitude and crashed...
...southern end of the gulf at the very moment that Flight 655 took off. Yet apparently nobody warned the civilian traffic controllers that Flight 655's path would take it directly over a developing firefight; had the controllers known that, they say, they would have delayed the takeoff. Why the foul-up? The military and civilian controllers at Bandar Abbas, it seems, did not talk to each other...
...demonstration quickly turned into disaster. Four minutes after takeoff from a commercial airport just north of Basel, Switzerland, the plane made the first of two planned low-altitude flybys for the crowd of 15,000 attending the air show at the tiny Habsheim, France, airstrip 15 miles away. The announcer touted the new jet ("It's so quiet you can barely hear its engines") as it went by at about 135 m.p.h...
...until it can establish a long-running safety record. Last week's crash was preceded by several glitches involving the new model. The first A320 to be delivered to Air France suffered a failure in four of its five electrical circuits in March when a transformer failed just before takeoff on a demonstration run over Paris with then Premier Jacques Chirac on board. Air France says a backup system immediately took over and there was never any danger to passengers or the plane...