Thread: Iran plane crash: All 66 people on board dead - airline

Sixty-six people have been killed in a passenger plane crash in Iran, airline company officials say.
The Aseman Airlines plane, en route from Tehran to the south-western city of Yasuj, came down in the Zagros mountains of central Iran.
The Red Crescent has deployed a search and rescue team to the site near the city of Semirom in Isfahan province.
The plane left Tehran at 05:00 local time (01:30 GMT) and disappeared from radar later.
A local official said bad weather had hampered a helicopter search.
"All emergency forces are on alert," a spokesman said.
The plane is believed to be a 20-year-old ATR 72-500.
Reports say those on board were 60 passengers, two security guards, two flight attendants and the pilot and co-pilot.

Iran plane crash: All 66 people on board dead - airline - BBC News

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Aseman Airlines

Old memories. Name change but same outfit I flew with in 1976.

have any ATRs crashed from mech failure or has it always been ego failure ?

Originally Posted by baldrick

have any ATRs crashed from mech failure or has it always been ego failure ?

It's had its share of mechanical faults, and a design fault where the pilot and co-pilot had separate control over the right and left side elevators.

But it's been a pretty reliable workhorse in fairness.

As mentioned in the OP, this one may well be down to weather.

^^Hope none of the above. Fly them all the time with Nok Air.

Putin condoles with Rouhani over plane crash




Sun 18 February 2018

TEHRAN, Feb. 18 (MNA) – President Putin of Russia forwarded a message of condolences to his Iranian counterpart Rouhani over the crash of the passenger plane which claimed the lives of 66 people on Sunday.President Vladimir Putin sent a message of condolences, on Sunday noon, to his Iranian counterpart Hassan Ruhani over the crash of the passenger liner ATR-72 of Aseman Airlines in the central province of Iran Isfahan. This is stated in a message on the Kremlin website.

Putin stressed that Russia shared the grief of those who lost their relatives in a plane crash and wished them courage and fortitude at this hard time.

The 20-year-old ATR plane, which disappeared from radars on Sunday morning 50 minutes after taking off from Mehrabad Airport, crashed into Dena Mountain near Bideh village in the city of Semirom, according to Iranian officials.

Several helicopters have been deployed to search the crash site, and rescue operation is underway. However, the heavy fog in the area does not let the copters land.

While the plane’s wreckage has not been found yet, Aseman Airline’s Public Relations chief declared that it is very likely that all the people on board have lost their lives.

https://en.mehrnews.com/news/132249/...er-plane-crash

Military aircraft crashes in south Iran pilot killed

Hopefully it was packed with Revolutionary Guards

Tehran (CNN)Iranian investigators have located the site of Sunday's plane crash that killed all 65 people on board, state TV reported Monday.

Bad weather had thwarted a recovery mission on Sunday, when a rescue helicopter was forced to turn back.
It was not immediately clear if search and rescue teams were able to reach the crash site on Monday.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/02/19/m...ntl/index.html

Allah willed it.