(MENAFN- The Peninsula) An Iranian official said yesterday that an airliner carrying Americans from Afghanistan to Dubai had been forced to land in Iran because the crew had supplied "false information".
The chartered Fly Dubai plane, carrying about 100 Americans from the US airbase at Bagram, Afghanistan, landed in Dubai early yesterday after being diverted to Bandar Abbas, just across the Strait of Hormuz.
"The crew used false information so the authorities became suspicious ... Because the information provided was incorrect, we asked the aeroplane to land so we could gather more information," said Jassem Jaderi, governor of Hormozgan province in southern Iran, according to the official Mehr News Agency.
A US State Department official said the plane had failed to update its flight plan after leaving Bagram several hours late for Dubai, on a route that took it over Iran.
When Iranian civil aviation officials identified the plane, they could not find it in their system because it was supposed to have flown through hours earlier, the official said. Iranian officials first told it to turn around but, when told it did not have enough fuel to return to Afghanistan, they asked it to land at Bandar Abbas, the official said.
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