Heorhiy Kirpa

COMM UNIAN FILE Ukraine's transport minister Heorhiy Kirpa, center left, presents a symbolic key from the An-140 (board # 003) to a "Aeromost-Kharkiv" airlines representative as the Kharkiv State aircraft plant transfers the plane to "Aeromost-Kharkiv" airlines in August 2002. Monday, Dec. 23, 2002 a Ukranian An-140 twin-engine turboprop crashed at about 7:30 p. m. (1600 GMT) near the village of Baqerabad while preparing to land in Isfahan, some 400 km (250 miles) south of Tehran. All 50 passengers and crew aboard the plane died when it crashed. Photo by Andrey Marienko / UNIAN