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Instead of practicing medicine, she became a pharmacist working at London Drugs, where we had come to know her as a personable, intelligent professional. Their daughter was not on the flight. Here's the Vancouver Sun report:
"Firouzeh Madani and Naser Pourshabanoshibi were award-winning doctors in Iran.
The pair immigrated to Canada from Iran in September 2013 with their daughter and were working on porting their medical credentials to Canada, said their niece Sara Hezarkhani.
“No words can describe their personalities, their true spirit, the passion that they had for the work,” said Hezarkhani.
In an archived blog post on the New To B.C. website, Madani was interviewed about her experience working to transfer her medical skills and qualifications to Canada. The blog post also spoke about Madani’s support from MOSAIC and Back in Motion — Skills Connect in order to secure work after immigrating.
“For my husband and I, the biggest challenge faced was finding a job, but the other issue we faced was the fact that our daughter was starting high school in a foreign country,” she had said.
As of 2015, Madani had taken one of the required three exams that would allow her to begin practising medicine in Canada.
Madani had also spent time volunteering with the North Vancouver City Library, helping to connect new immigrants with services available to them at the library.""
I'm afraid that I am becoming more and more sickened by what is happening in our world. It would be comforting to know that the leaders of our most important, powerful nations actually cared, but I no longer believe in miracles.
Bob
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Bob, sorry for the loss of your friend.
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I am sure that most of us are familiar with the phrase Six Degrees of Separation, even if they took a pass on the movie.
In a small country, it is more often the case that there are only two degrees of separation.
When a Siberian Airlines jet en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk was shot down over the Ukraine going on twenty years ago, there were so many terrorist attacks during those years that I actually said to myself: "Well, at least I don't have to worry that I knew someone on that plane."
Then I remembered that I actually was friendly with someone who had moved from Novosibirsk to a suburb of Tel Aviv, so I called and was assured that both my friend and her teen-aged daughter were fine, at home, where they belonged. But the little girl's music teacher had died on that plane.
Sometimes, these things just come a grab a piece out of your life.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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IkeyPikey's post reminded me of another airline tragedy — EgyptAir 990. That's the one that was apparently a suicide by the relief pilot, who apparently forced the plane to dive into the Atlantic.
According to Wikipedia, the NTSB found that the probable cause of the accident was the airplane's departure from normal cruise flight and subsequent impact with the Atlantic Ocean. The NTSB's report stated that the impact was "a result of the relief first officer's flight control inputs", but did not determine a specific reason for the relief first officer's alleged actions. Egyptian authorities disputed that finding, and blamed mechanical failure of the plane's elevator.
Two of the victims, an American father and son, were my wife's cousins. She had never met them, but she was aware of them.
Bob
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I think I have the right flight, the Air India disaster in 1985. I was teaching at a high school in Halifax N.S. and one of my students and his father who was a professor at a Halifax university were killed when the plain disintegrated over the Atlantic. These types of incidents seem to be more common now and eventually each of us will know someone killed in one of them. It's a sad world we live in when someone would rather kill people than make an effort to get along with them - unfortunately I think it will get much worse!
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I lost 2 friends on China Northwest Airlines Flight 2023 in June of 1994, the deadliest crash in mainland China's history. I was working as an English Teacher in Asia and 2 of my colleagues were on that flight--both in their early 20's. Faulty maintenance. . .
Even sadder, 3 months before an acquaintance was on Aeroflot Flight 593 where the pilot's 16 year old son was in the cockpit and accidentally disengaged the plane's autopilot.
1994 was a tough year.
Jackie
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My wife, Susan, and I recently learned that the tragic shooting down of the Ukrainian airliner in Iran took the life of a pharmacist we had come to know. She was Firouzeh Madani, who had worked as a physician in Iran but could not practice medicine in Canada because, basically, the Canadian Medical Association makes it so hard for foreign-trained doctors to get accreditation in Canada.
Instead of practicing medicine, she became a pharmacist working at London Drugs, where we had come to know her as a personable, intelligent professional. Their daughter was not on the flight. Here's the Vancouver Sun report:
"Firouzeh Madani and Naser Pourshabanoshibi were award-winning doctors in Iran.
The pair immigrated to Canada from Iran in September 2013 with their daughter and were working on porting their medical credentials to Canada, said their niece Sara Hezarkhani.
“No words can describe their personalities, their true spirit, the passion that they had for the work,” said Hezarkhani.
In an archived blog post on the New To B.C. website, Madani was interviewed about her experience working to transfer her medical skills and qualifications to Canada. The blog post also spoke about Madani’s support from MOSAIC and Back in Motion — Skills Connect in order to secure work after immigrating.
“For my husband and I, the biggest challenge faced was finding a job, but the other issue we faced was the fact that our daughter was starting high school in a foreign country,” she had said.
As of 2015, Madani had taken one of the required three exams that would allow her to begin practising medicine in Canada.
Madani had also spent time volunteering with the North Vancouver City Library, helping to connect new immigrants with services available to them at the library.""
I'm afraid that I am becoming more and more sickened by what is happening in our world. It would be comforting to know that the leaders of our most important, powerful nations actually cared, but I no longer believe in miracles.
Bob
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Bob, sorry for the loss of your friend.
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I am sure that most of us are familiar with the phrase Six Degrees of Separation, even if they took a pass on the movie.
In a small country, it is more often the case that there are only two degrees of separation.
When a Siberian Airlines jet en route from Tel Aviv to Novosibirsk was shot down over the Ukraine going on twenty years ago, there were so many terrorist attacks during those years that I actually said to myself: "Well, at least I don't have to worry that I knew someone on that plane."
Then I remembered that I actually was friendly with someone who had moved from Novosibirsk to a suburb of Tel Aviv, so I called and was assured that both my friend and her teen-aged daughter were fine, at home, where they belonged. But the little girl's music teacher had died on that plane.
Sometimes, these things just come a grab a piece out of your life.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey
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re: Ukrainian airline death "hits home"
IkeyPikey's post reminded me of another airline tragedy — EgyptAir 990. That's the one that was apparently a suicide by the relief pilot, who apparently forced the plane to dive into the Atlantic.
According to Wikipedia, the NTSB found that the probable cause of the accident was the airplane's departure from normal cruise flight and subsequent impact with the Atlantic Ocean. The NTSB's report stated that the impact was "a result of the relief first officer's flight control inputs", but did not determine a specific reason for the relief first officer's alleged actions. Egyptian authorities disputed that finding, and blamed mechanical failure of the plane's elevator.
Two of the victims, an American father and son, were my wife's cousins. She had never met them, but she was aware of them.
Bob
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re: Ukrainian airline death "hits home"
I think I have the right flight, the Air India disaster in 1985. I was teaching at a high school in Halifax N.S. and one of my students and his father who was a professor at a Halifax university were killed when the plain disintegrated over the Atlantic. These types of incidents seem to be more common now and eventually each of us will know someone killed in one of them. It's a sad world we live in when someone would rather kill people than make an effort to get along with them - unfortunately I think it will get much worse!
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re: Ukrainian airline death "hits home"
I lost 2 friends on China Northwest Airlines Flight 2023 in June of 1994, the deadliest crash in mainland China's history. I was working as an English Teacher in Asia and 2 of my colleagues were on that flight--both in their early 20's. Faulty maintenance. . .
Even sadder, 3 months before an acquaintance was on Aeroflot Flight 593 where the pilot's 16 year old son was in the cockpit and accidentally disengaged the plane's autopilot.
1994 was a tough year.
Jackie
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