Iran plane crash: 66 killed as commercial flight goes down in southern Iran

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Iran plane crash: 66 killed as commercial flight goes down in southern Iran

File photo shows a French-made ATR-72 owned by Iran's Aseman Airlines on the tarmac at Dubai airport on July 29, 2008./ An Iranian commercial plane crashed on Sunday in a foggy, mountainous region of southern Iran, killing all 66 people on board, state media reported. An Aseman Airlines ATR-72, a twin-engine turboprop used for short-distance regional flying, went down near its destination of the southern Iranian city of Yasuj, some 485 miles south of the Iranian capital, Tehran. Aseman Airlines spokesman Mohammad Taghi Tabatabai told state ...

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Feb 18, 2018

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Commercial plane crashes in southern Iran, killing 66 people

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Commercial plane crashes in southern Iran, killing 66 people

TEHRAN, Iran — An Iranian commercial plane crashed on Sunday in a foggy, mountainous region of southern Iran, killing all 66 people on board, state media reported. An Aseman Airlines ATR-72, a twin-engine turboprop used for short-distance regional flying, went down near its destination of the ...

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Commercial Plane Crashes in Southern Iran, Killing 66 People

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Commercial Plane Crashes in Southern Iran, Killing 66 People

- An Iranian commercial plane crashed on Sunday in a foggy, mountainous region of southern Iran, killing all 66 people on board, state media reported./ An Aseman Airlines ATR-72, a twin-engine turboprop used for short-distance regional flying, went down near its destination of the southern ...

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No survivors in Iran plane crash, airline says

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Reuters

All passengers, crew in Iran plane crash believed dead: airline spokesman

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All passengers, crew in Iran plane crash believed dead: airline spokesman

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RPT-Iranian passenger plane crashes in central Iran

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RPT-Iranian passenger plane crashes in central Iran

Iran media/ DUBAI, Feb 18 (Reuters) - An Iranian passenger plane with 66 people on board crashed in central Iran on Sunday during a flight from Tehran to the city of Yasuj in southwestern Iran, Iranian media reported. The plane crashed in a mountainous area near the town of Semirom, the news ...

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Reuters

All 66 passengers, crew feared dead in Iranian plane crash

Reuters

All 66 passengers, crew feared dead in Iranian plane crash

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Feb 18, 2018

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Plane crashes in southern Iran, killing all 66 people on board

An Iranian commercial aircraft has crashed in a foggy, mountainous region of southern Iran, killing all 66 people on board, state media reports./ Plane was a twin-engine turboprop ATR-72 used for short-distance regional flying/ Aseman Airlines specialises in flights to remote airfields across ...

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Iran Plane Crashes Into Mountain, Killing All 66 Aboard

Distraught relatives of passengers of the crashed Aseman Airline flight gathered at the Mehr-Abad Airport in Tehran, Iran, on Sunday. TEHRAN, Iran — A commercial plane crashed on Sunday in a foggy, mountainous region of Iran, killing all 66 people on board, the state news media reported. The ...

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All 65 passengers, crew feared dead in Iranian plane crash

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All 65 passengers, crew feared dead in Iranian plane crash

All 65 passengers and crew were feared dead in a plane crash in central Iran on Sunday after the domestic flight came down in bad weather in a mountainous region. A spokesman for Iranian carrier Aseman Airlines had told state television everyone was killed, but the airline then issued a ...

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The Latest: Iran says 65 killed in airplane crash

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Latest on the crash of an Iranian passenger plane in southern Iran (all times local): Iran's state-run IRNA news agency is saying that the death toll in a commercial airplane crash is 65. IRNA reported Sunday night that one passenger did not make the flight. That puts the ...

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Iran says fog caused a plane crash that may have killed 65. That might not be the whole story.

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Iran says fog caused a plane crash that may have killed 65. That might not be the whole story.

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All 65 aboard plane feared dead in crash in southern Iran

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A Commercial Plane Has Crashed in Southern Iran, Likely Killing All 65 People on Board

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Iran flier texted before deadly plane crash: 'May God protect us'

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Dozens feared dead after plane crashes in Iran

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Iran postpones hunt for plane lost in mountain blizzard

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Iranian Rescue Teams Find Site, Wreckage From Plane Crash

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Iran continues search for missing plane, no wreckage found yet

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