Gregory Polek has spent his entire career in aviation journalism with AIN, starting as a proofreader and assistant to then-managing editor Mary Mahoney in 1995 after serving an internship with&nbsp;New Jersey Monthly&nbsp;magazine and completing his B.A. degree in English/Writing at New Jersey’s William Paterson College. By 1997 Polek accepted a position as an associate editor, covering the regional airline beat for&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;in place of retiring industry veteran Don Anderson. The assignment took Polek across North America and Europe to profile regional airlines varying in size and mission from the likes of floatplane operators Kenmore Air and Chalk’s Ocean Airways to regional jet operators such as SkyWest and American Eagle. Today, in his dual role as Air Transport Editor and International Airshow Editor, Polek writes, edits, and manages AIN’s commercial aviation content while overseeing each of the company’s daily international air show publications in Paris, Farnborough, Singapore, and Dubai. Most recently Polek has assumed oversight of daily coverage of the Helicopter Association International’s annual Heli-Expo convention.

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An Antonov An-140 operated by Iranian carrier Taban Air crashed on Sunday almost immediately following takeoff from Tehran’s Mehrabad International Airport, killing 40 of the 48 people on board. The airplane, built in Iran under license by HESA and branded the Iran-140, took off at 9:45 a.m. local time on its way to Tabas in the northeastern part of the country, according to Iran’s Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA).


Iranian president Hassan Rouhani ordered all An-140 operators in Iran to ground the turboprops pending a full investigation. IRNA also confirmed that search crews have found the airplane’s flight recorders, adding that the head of Iran Civil Aviation Organization, Alireza Jahangirian, said Monday that authorities had tasked 11 committees with investigating the crash.



 
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Iranian An-140 Crashes in Tehran, Killing 40

Eight survivors taken to a Tehran hospital.

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