lufthansa in january of 2014. the actual flight hours of that aircraft are 58,313. this aircraft is mainly focusing on short continental flights. the last routine check by lufthansa technical services was done in dusseldorf just yesterday on the 23rd of march, 2015. the aircraft was supposed to start at 9:35 this morning. the actual local starting time was 10:01. it was supposed to land at 11:55 local time.
one of the black boxes has been located. the victims are said to be of spanish, german and turkish descent. colombian officials say two of their citizens were on board. the state department is reviewing whether any americans were on the flight. a spokesperson for the parent company for germanwings said the plane had undergone a routine check on monday. a newspaper reports a problem had been detected with the nose landing gear and the doors and was repaired. that, of course took place in the last few days. the plane has been in operation since november of 1990. and it has been operated by germanwings since january of 2014. the plane had logged over 58,000 flight hours. the pilot had been flying with the company for more than ten years. incidents involving an air bus
the invasion of iraq began in january of 2014 with fa luge a. malaki asked for the united states help. we said no. immediately iranian airplanes began to arrive to include initially some iranian air power. they set up a little operation center east of baghdad. we did not provide help until august of that same year. the request was made in january. martha: the leader in iraq said the same thing. he said i didn t get any help from the united states. i m turning to iran and why wouldn t i? because we need help pushing these guys out. so does this signal to you that the united states is comfortable with an increasingly powerful iran in not only iraq but also in syria, in lebanon, across the middle east? yeah. this is what is ironic here
into the chaos of syria. by 2013, al baghdadi changes the name again, this time calling the islamic state in iraq and syria, and soon take the first syrian city. the black flag hanging in the eastern city of raqqa. comes the strong hold for their growing movement. president obama is asked about the threat in the interview with the new yorker in january of 2014. compared isis to a junior varsity sports team, saying, quote, the analogy we use around here sometimes that i think is accurate is that the jv teams puts on laker uniforms, it doesn t make them kobe bryant. those remarks come back to haunt him as isis launches a massive offensive. including mosul, the second largest city in iraq, and tikrit, the hometown of saddam hussein. time after time iraqi troops
this is not the time to engage in activities that would threaten our counter terrorism capabilities such as have been exhibited in the movement on this case. and effectively to hold our counter-terrorism agencies hostage to political machinations in d.c. i think our case reinforces that contention on our part. this is not the time to be engaging in political rhetoric or political grandstanding. there is talk lately about what is happening in the. [ inaudible question ] oh, certainly. that we have talked about this over an extensive period of time. i think i ve references when john and i came in january of 2014 and took on our new positions that the threat at that time was that of al qaeda and al qaeda and the arabian peninsula and charged with the