It is believed that the Kish Airline Fokker-50, travelling from the Iranian island, Kish, landed nose-first.
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Neither the passengers nor the four crew members aboard the Fokker 100 jetliner were hurt, Swiss said.
In 1996 he pulled the plug on the Dutch aircraft-maker, Fokker, which he had failed to turn around.
Minoan said Fokker 50 aircraft would fly the route, as well as a new regular service between Dublin and Oxford.
Until Fokker's collapse, when Bombardier briefly thought of buying the company, Mr Beaudoin barely appeared on the aerospace industry's radar screen.
After his experiences with Fokker, which cost Daimler-Benz DM2.3 billion, this is perhaps the most unpalatable project for the born-again Daimler chairman.
The airline operated two Fokker-100 jets, which are no longer being manufactured.
In 1996, a TAM airlines Fokker-100 crashed shortly after taking off from the same airport, killing all 96 people on board and three on the ground.
Mr Schrempp's lieutenants believe the Asia Express, in which the European consortium is to hold 39%, would be even less competitive than the now-defunct Fokker 100.
In 1996, pioneering aviation firm Fokker NV, once a byword for industrial expertise, collapsed, ending 77 years of Dutch aircraft making and triggering the biggest mass redundancy in Dutch history.
In the latest accident, the aircraft, a Fokker 50 owned by local company CAA, was flying in from the central mining town of Lodja when it came down in heavy rainfall, AFP reports.
The person arrested in France is believed to have been one of eight robbers who sped onto the tarmac of the airport on the evening of Feb. 16 disguised as police and stole 120 packages of diamonds from a Fokker-100 jetliner bound for Zurich.
True, it has focused on smaller aircraft, but the regional-jet business has, if anything, been much tougher than that for long-haul aircraft: witness the recent bankruptcy of Fokker, the previous market leader, not to mention the sluggish progress of plenty of government-backed aerospace projects.
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