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Where is Ashland, Oregon, on this list? The omission seems egregious.
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A Caspian Airlines plane crashed minutes after takeoff in Tehran, killing all 168 people aboard:

The airline crash is Iran’s worst in six years, and it underscored the country’s vulnerability to aviation disasters. Iran has been unable to adequately maintain its aging fleet of American-built aircraft for 30 years because of an embargo after the Islamic Revolution, and has increasingly relied on aircraft from Russian manufacturers, which have their own troubled safety history.

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