IRAQ: GERMAN AID ORGANISATION AIRCRAFT LANDS AT BAGHDAD AIRPORT DESPITE AN OVERALL FLIGHT BAN IMPOSED AS PART OF U.N. SANCTIONS FOLLOWING 1991 GULF WAR

Record ID: 643543

  • Title: IRAQ: GERMAN AID ORGANISATION AIRCRAFT LANDS AT BAGHDAD AIRPORT DESPITE AN OVERALL FLIGHT BAN IMPOSED AS PART OF U.N. SANCTIONS FOLLOWING 1991 GULF WAR
  • Date: 20th August 2000
  • Summary: BAGHDAD, IRAQ (AUGUST 20, 2000, AUGUST 17, 2000) (REUTERS-ACCESS ALL) 1. MV: EXTERIOR OF SADDAM INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT 0.04 2. VARIOUS OF GERMAN AIR RESCUE PLANE ON TARMAC (3 SHOTS) 0.14 3. MV/SV: MAN DISEMBARKING PLANE (2 SHOTS) 0.23 4. SV: CAPTAIN NORBERT FLEISCHMANN AND HIS COLLEAGUES WALKING TO VIP LOUNGE IN THE AIRPORT 0.31 5. SCU: (SOUNDBITE)(English) CAPTAIN OF THE PLANE NORBERT FLEISCHMANN SAYING: "We have 25 rescue helicopters operating in Germany and we have two aircraft to pick up sick persons, world wide, to bring them back to Germany or to bring them like in this case from Baghdad to Izmir, Turkey." 0.51 6. CU: NOTEBOOK 0.52 7. SCU: (SOUNDBITE)(English) FLEISCHMANN SAYING: "I feel bad about this embargo, I feel very bad about it, and I think my latest information is that the embargo is not staying much longer." 1.07 8. SCU: (SOUNDBITE)(English) DOCTOR CHRISTOPH HIRSCH SAYING: "I have only one mission - to take the sick, Swedish person - to take to Turkey." 1.14 9. MV: AMBULANCE BRINGING SICK MAN TO PLANE 1.21 10. MV: PEOPLE CARRYING STRETCHER TO AMBULANCE 1.28 11. SV: WIFE OF THE SICK MAN GETTING INTO PLANE 1.35 12. SV: MEN CARRYING SICK PERSON WHILE HE WAS ON THE STRETCHER. 1.51 13. SV: CLOSE UP OF SICK MAN 1.54 14. MV'S: THE PLANE TAKING OFF (2 SHOTS) 2.11 (RECENT)(AUGUST 17, 2000) 15. HAS: PEOPLE ARRIVING TO ATTEND AIRPORT RE-OPENING CEREMONY 2.15 16. SV: EMPLOYEE AT AIRPORT 2.22 17. MV/SV: MINISTER OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATION AHMED MURTADHA AHMED CUTTING A RIBBON, MARKING THE RE-OPENING OF THE AIRPORT (2 SHOTS) 2.29 18. VARIOUS: THE MINISTER ATTENDING THE CELEBRATION OF THE RE-OPENING OF THE AIRPORT (4 SHOTS) 2.44 19. MV'S: MARCHING BANDS (2 SHOTS) 3.00 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 4th September 2000 13:00
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  • Location: BAGHDAD, IRAQ
  • Country: Iraq
  • Reuters ID: LVA26QJQMSE7PUVZ4ABPOEMEGLJF
  • Story Text: An aircraft belonging to a German aid organisation has
    landed at Baghdad's newly reopened international
    airport despite an overall flight ban as part of United
    Nations sanctions following the 1991 Gulf War.


    The German plane, belonging to arrived in Baghdad on
    Sunday, which took off from Baghdad International Airport,
    about four hours after it had landed, picked up a sick Swedish
    man for treatment in Izmir, Turkey. The Swedish man was in
    Iraq with his wife and son. There was no information
    available to say who they are or why they are living in Iraq.

    There was also no medical information available to say what is
    wrong with the man.

    Baghdad International Airport on Thursday after 10 years
    of enforced closure.

    U.N. Sanctions on Iraq bans international flights

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