recently A mysterious event happened four Airbus A340 aircraft bound 4 Uzbekistan departed
South Africa but requested the diversion to Tehran Imam kamini International Airport ik
presumably their final destination the flight information was confirmed by various flight
trackers which spread the word on social media regarding the suspicious diversion so in this
video we're going to talk about the big Airbus A340 news the video is going to be amazing
so make sure you stick to the end on December 23rd for Airbus A3 4300 wine bodies took off
a few minutes apart from Johannesburg International Airport in South Africa and followed on a
direct flight to Tehran the capital of Iran however the aircraft's original Flight Plan
mentioned uzbekisan as the final destination but they never arrived there for context all
four of these planes were former Turkish Airlines Airbus A3 4300s which left the carriers Fleet
in 2018 and 2019.
the planes were purchased by a company in Hong Kong named Avro Global which exclusively
owned these four planes for the past few years the planes have simply been parked at Johannesburg
airport and were registered in Guernsey Hassan kushku the spokesman for Iran's civil aviation
organization CEO said that the Airbus a340s are made in France and had arrived in the
country in recent days he stopped short of providing further details on how the airliners
were procured and who facilitated the purchase there wasn't much of a sign of activity until
recently when the planes were re-registered and Burkina Faso with new registration codes
XD AKA XD AKB XD akk NXT Alm then shortly thereafter these planes started their Journeys
out of South Africa for what is worth the a340s were all produced between 1996 and 2000
so their 22 to 26 years old U.S sanctions have prevented Iranian companies including
the country's leading Airlines Iran air and Mahan Airlines from purchasing Airbus a340s
to bolster their aging outdated Fleet the aviation Committee of Armenia was alerted
about a suspected hijacking off the Boeing and launched an investigation together with
the airline to find out the whereabouts of the aircraft according to the Facebook account
for The Armenian prime minister hakub changurian the fact was notified by his counterpart from
the United Arab Emirates this obviously presents a major challenge for an Iran ear and mahanir
the country's two largest Airlines which operate outdated fleets as they can only get planes
second hand even the planes they get second hand are largely acquired illegitimately through
clandestine transactions to circumventus actions due to difficulties in procuring spare parts
and even purchasing new planes Premier Iranian carriers including Iran ear Mahan Airlines
and Kish air have stopped many of their overseas operations in recent years Iran has suffered
from shortages of Civilian airliners since the 1990s and used a variety of ways to these
order planes or buy spare parts through the intermediaries with the technical state of
its fleet has been deteriorating the 2015 nuclear agreement jcpoa suspended sanctions
on purchases of Western aircraft and Iran began talks to buy neoplanes from Boeing and
Airbus a few Airbus planes were delivered but the Trump Administration never approved
the sale of U.S planes until Washington withdrew from the jcpoa in May 2018 speculation on
social media has already begun and it all indicates that Iran has actually bought these
four A340 aircraft and simulated a group diversion to Ikea to acquire them avoiding any sanction
that prohibits the country from officially purchasing Airlines of course this maneuver
has not been confirmed nor denied by any official Authority if true it's unknown which airline
is destined to operate the a340s looking at the actual fleets of Iranian carriers only
three operators fly the quadcia today Mahan air W5 Iran aisman Airlines EP and the Islamic
Republic of Iran we can say that the government of Iran is the future owner of the fleet even
though the only a34300 they operate is actually an xtk plane this is because a total Fleet
of five wide bodies could exceed the needs of transporting government officials very
rarely on InterContinental routes so that's it please like share and comment your thoughts
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