| Abbreviation/Acronym
|
Meaning
|
| AAIB
|
Air Accident Investigation Board
|
| ACC
|
Area Control Centre
|
| ADD
|
Air Defence District
|
| ADOC
|
Air Defence Operations Centre
|
| ADS-B
|
Automatic Dependent Surveillance - Broadcast
|
| ADU
|
Air Defence Unit
|
| AFM
|
Aircraft Flight Manuals
|
| AFV752
|
Association of Families of Flight PS752 Victims
|
| AGL
|
Above Ground Level
|
| ALCM
|
Air-Launched Cruise Missile
|
| AMM
|
Aircraft Maintenance Manual
|
| AM
|
Ante Meridiem (Latin), Before Noon
|
| AoA
|
Angle of Attack
|
| ARINC
|
Aeronautical Radio Inc.
|
| ATC
|
Air Traffic Control
|
| ATD
|
Actual Time of Departure
|
| BEA
|
Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses
|
| BHS
|
Baggage Handling System
|
| CAO.IRI
|
Civil Aviation Organization of Islamic Republic of Iran
|
| CBC
|
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
|
| CCTV
|
Closed Circuit Television
|
| CEO
|
Chief Executive Officer
|
| CMOCC
|
Civil-Military Operational Coordination Center
|
| CP
|
Command Post
|
| CV
|
Combat Vehicle
|
| CVR
|
Cockpit Voice Recorder
|
| DNT
|
Dinitrotoluene
|
| ETKA
|
Administration of Logistics of Staff Army
|
| FAA
|
Federal Aviation Administration
|
| FCOM
|
Flight Crew Operating Manual
|
| FCU
|
Fuel Control Unit
|
| FDR
|
Flight Data Recorder
|
| FFC
|
Fact Finding Committee
|
| FG
|
Flight Guidance
|
| FIR
|
Flight Information Region
|
| FL
|
Flight Level
|
| GPS
|
Global Positioning System
|
| GSAF
|
General Staff of the Armed Forces
|
| HRM
|
Human Rights Monitor
|
| I.R.
|
Islamic Republic
|
| IADS
|
Integrated Air Defence System
|
| IATA
|
International Air Transport Association
|
| ICAO
|
International Civil Aviation Organization
|
| IFR
|
Instrument Flight Rules
|
| IKA
|
Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport
|
| IKAC
|
Imam Khomeini Airport City
|
| IPA
|
Iran Prison Atlas
|
| IPC
|
Islamic Penal Code
|
| IRGC
|
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps
|
| IRIADF
|
Islamic Republic of Iran Air Defence Force
|
| KAADB
|
Khatam-al-Anbiya Air Defence Base
|
| KAJADHQ
|
Khatam-al-Anbiya Joint Air Defence Headquarter
|
| METAR
|
Meteorological Aerodrome Reports
|
| NAVAID
|
Navigational Aid
|
| NM
|
Nautical Mile
|
| NOTAM
|
Notice to Airmen
|
| NTSB
|
National Transportation Safety Board
|
| NVM
|
Non-Volatile Memory
|
| PFD
|
Primary Flight Display
|
| PFLP-GC
|
Popular Front for The Liberation of Palestine – General Command
|
| PM
|
Post Meridiem (Latin), After noon
|
| RCMP
|
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
|
| SAM
|
Surface-to-Air Missile
|
| SAVAK
|
Sāzemān-e Ettelā'āt va Amniyat-e Keshvar (Iranian Intelligence and Security Organization of the Country)
|
| SAW
|
Istanbul Sabiha Gokcen International Airport
|
| SI&A
|
Serious Incident and Accident Investigation
|
| SITA
|
Société Internationale de Télécommunications Aéronautiques
|
| SOC
|
Sector Operation Control
|
| TAR
|
Target Acquisition Radar
|
| TNT
|
Trinitrotoluene
|
| TSB
|
Transportation Safety Board
|
| TT
|
Tehran Time
|
| TTR
|
Target Tracking Radar
|
| UN
|
United Nations
|
| USS
|
United States Ship
|
| UTC
|
Coordinated Universal Time
|