Iranian passenger plane with 66 people on board crashes into mountains, all feared killed
Tehran, Feb 18 (IBNS): An Iranian passenger plane, with 66 people on board, has crashed into the country’s Zagros mountains, media reports said on Sunday.
According to Iranian media Mehr News Agency, all 60 passengers and the six crew members are killed in the crash.
The Aseman Airlines flight with 60 passengers and six crew on board crashed in a mountainous area near the town of Samirom.
"The 20-year-old ATR plane carrying dozens of passengers from Tehran to Yasuj, in southwestern Iran and the capital of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province, after disappearing from flight radar on Sunday morning, went down in Samirom, Isfahan province," Mehr News Agency reported.
An intensive search operation has been launched with several helicopters deployed for the same.
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