Talk:Iran Airtour Flight 956

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Aircraft details - multiple errors

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The Tupolev TU-154 is the most widely used jetliner in Russia and is widely used throughout the region, generally seating 148 passengers.

It might have been the most widely used back in the 1980s and 1990s, but since 2011 there have been hardly any used by civilian airlines, and only a handful of military examples in service. For that matter neither the Boeing 707 nor the Douglas DC-8 are seen much these days either, although I don't have actual citations to back up any of these claims. Obviously I could tag it with "citation needed", but what would be the point?

This crash was the 20th involving a TU-154 since it entered service in the 1970s.

Somebody is 'avin a laugh now; I have it as #57 out of 64 hull losses. Maybe the OP was splitting out Tu-154Ms as a sub-group? Either way, without some context such figures are not hugely relevant.

The involved aircraft was a TU-154M, with manufacturer number 91A871, and serial number 08-71.

WP:REGISTRATION deprecates using MSNs unless there is no alternative.

it made its first flight on 21 May 1991

Finally, a usable (& relevant) piece of info; it just needs a citation to support it.

...which assigned the aircraft registration number CCCP-85698 and sent it to the Azerbaijan Department. In 1993 the airliner was re-registered to 4K-85698, the aircraft registration for Azerbaijan as a result of the collapse of the Soviet Union

This is just previous history that has no place in this article.

After an overhaul, the aircraft was leased to pay for the work by ARZ-400, which in turn subleased it to the Bulgarian company Balkangtsev in May 2000. The registration was changed to LZ-LTO, and in December 2000, was subleased to another Bulgarian company, Bulgarian Air Charter (BAC), with the registration once again changed to LZ-LCO.

More previous history that has no place in this article. WP:TOOMUCH

I believe some radical pruning is required; add your comments here if you disagree with my editing. WendlingCrusader (talk) 02:05, 2 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

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