The Iranian Air Force’s only 747-200B, registered 5-8106 an ex-Iraqi Airways machine (ex YI-AGN) that Iran took over as war reparations at the end of the 1980s, has suffered severe damage after an engine run caused it to either suffer a brake failure or jump the chocks, during an engine run at Tehran’s downtown Mehrabad airport.
This unfortunate event happened at the conclusion of a six-year long D-check. Although the aircraft will be repaired, and most likely re-engined with the JT9Ds of Iran Air’s last 747SP-86 registered EP-IAC, the effort and cost associated with a D-check would appear to have been invalidated.
Photo via Sharham Sharifi
hi Rob
do you have any pictures for your da inside the airplane please
Replacing the engines with JT9 how modern – it already has JT9 – the wonderful -7A’s my guess is they would update to the plumbers nightmare – the JT9-7Q – or even newer the JT9-7r4 – there’s a few sitting around doing nothing – gathering dust and hot section corrosion – Or even do something out of the box install PW4000 as the airframe has been having a 6 YEAR “D” check it will probably take another 6 to install the new engines. Nice to see an airline still using the classics. A great aircraft shame to see them go. My whole aviation working life was with these wonderfull aircraft good and bad times.
My dad RIP was a captain on the Iraqi airways B747-200 YI-AGN during the 70s. The original engines that were installed on YI-AGN are the JT9D-7F.
6 years long D check? What were they doing, milling their own replacement parts after building their own fabrication facility?
That’ll buff out.