The aviation officials ruled out the possibility of technical failure, sabotage or terrorism, but offered no definitive conclusion as to what could have caused the retrofitted Tupolev TU-154 to slam into the trees just shy of a western Russian airport.
"Tech support people and systems administrators are some of the most dangerous people to let go," says Jim Atkinson Jim Atkinson, president of Gloucester, Mass.-based Granite Island Group, which specializes in cleaning up technical corporate sabotage.
In the light of potentially disastrous incidents -- whether caused by human mistakes, technical accidents, sabotage or the forces of nature -- it is necessary to seriously consider the worst possible case.
It is unclear if those troubles have been caused by Iran's own technical failings, outside sabotage or some other reason.
The use of modern technology however was dismissed on the basis of a lack of total success overseas, and being open to sabotage and technical failure.
Tronstad's section was responsible for the special operation towards industry and shipping; training of the Norwegian Independent Company 1 (Kompani Linge); technical advice on sabotage, and towards the end of the war also the protection of Norwegian industry.
Usama el-Abed, the deputy leader of the new city council, said between 60 and 70percentt of the residents don't have enough water, but that the shortages are due to technical problems, not sabotage by regime forces.
Due to policy decisions, technical problems and some computer sabotage by the United States and Israel, the Iranians haven't moved as quickly as they could have toward achieving nuclear weapons capability; a United Nations watchdog agency said earlier this month, for example, that the commissioning of a research reactor near the city of Arak had been delayed.
The signals did not indicate what may have caused smoke, and aviation experts have said that neither deliberate sabotage nor a technical fault could be ruled out.
The signals did not indicate what caused the smoke or fire, and aviation experts have not ruled out either deliberate sabotage or a technical fault, but they offered early clues as to what unfolded in the moments before the crash.
