Tehran, Feb. 18 (TNS): All people onboard feared killed as an Iranian passenger plane carrying around 60 people crashed in an unknown mountainous area during its course.
The Plane which was on its way to the Yasuj City in Iran from Tehran reportedly ‘disappeared from the radar’ as per the agencies.
The news of the crash was confirmed by the Iranian media and the death toll is yet to be determined. It was an ATR 72 plane was out of the radar’s reach just 20 minutes after taking off and no connection could be established between the pilot and the control room.
There were over 60 people in the Aseman Airlines flight which had taken off from Tehran at 5 AM local time and crashed within half an hour of its take off from the airport.
According to a Mirror report, the crash site was determined near Semirom in Iran’s central Isfahan province and a few eye-witnesses were quoted as saying that the plane was probably trying to make an emergency landing on a green pasture patch when it lost control and was shattered.
Neither the number of passengers, nor the intensity of the damage has been accurately determined yet, but the crash certainly is one of the worst in country’s history.
