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An Iranian cargo plane en route to Syria was forced to land in Turkey's southeastern Diyarbakir airport for an inspection, security sources said on Wednesday.The plane landed following an order from the Turkish foreign ministry citing suspicion of military or nuclear related cargo onboard, the sources said.The plane was still grounded at Diyarbakir airport on Wednesday where the search was ongoing, according to an AFP correspondent at the scene.The plane took off from Tehran on Tuesday night bound for the Syrian city of Aleppo, Anatolia news agency reported.

An Iranian cargo plane en route to Syria has been forced to land in Turkey's southeastern Diyarbakir airport for an inspection, security forces said on Sunday.The plane, a civilian Ilyushin, landed on Saturday night on the orders of the Turkish authorities. Military fighter planes were on standby in case the plane refused to comply.An inspection of the plane is on-going to check whether the aircraft has any illicit or military material on board, security sources added.

US company IDs 7 people killed in Afghanistan cargo plane crash; 6 from Mich., 1 from Ky. DETROIT (AP) — The friend of one of seven Americans killed in a cargo plane crash near an Air Force base in Afghanistan described him as an experienced navigator who performed well under pressure.

DETROIT — One of the seven Americans killed in a fiery 747 plane crash outside of an Afghanistan military base that was caught on video told family that he knew he would die “in a ball of flame.” Jamie Brokaw was an experienced navigator who was no stranger to dangerous flying situations and had the skills to stay cool in the face of danger, according to close friend Chris Connerton.

Which is better - a graduate tax or tuition fees? This new paper by Tom McKenzie and Dirk Sliwka gives a neat economists’ take.

Rescue workers have found at least 22 survivors among 47 people aboard a passenger plane that crashed Monday in southeastern Venezuela, officials said.Francisco Rangel Gomez, governor of the southeastern Venezuela state of Bolivar where the crash occurred, said rescuers found the survivors shortly after arriving at the scene of Monday's crash.The Conviasa Airline plane was en route to the resort city of Isla Margarita when it went down about six miles (10 kilometers) from Puerto Ordaz carrying 43 passengers and four crew.

Russia on Sunday named two passengers killed in a Moscow plane accident amid reports that human error could have caused the Russian-made plane's engines to fail, forcing it to crash land.The Dagestan Airlines plane bound for Makhachkala in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan with 169 people on board rolled off the runway at Domodedovo airport and broke up into three pieces, killing two and injuring more than 80.

The world is still reeling from this week's huge Mandiant report on Chinese hacking, which not only directly linked attacks on the US to the People's Liberation Army — amazingly finding the Shanghai building that the hacks appeared to come from.