The airliner said all on board Flight EP3704 were killed, including six crew members. The crash of the aircraft, brought back into service only months ago after being grounded for seven years, was yet another fatal aviation disaster for Iran, which for years was barred from buying necessary ...
Iranian search and rescue workers hike up the side of Mount Dena in southern Iran in an effort to reach the wreckage of a Aseman Airlines plane that crashed the previous day in dense fog, Feb. 19, 2018. This image is from video broadcast by Iran's state-run IRINN network./ -- Iranian search and ...
, during which not a single passenger jet crashed, there have already been two air disasters, claiming the lives of 137 people, in 2018. over the country’s mountainous interior came just a week And for the second time in seven days, the safety and maintenance records of an airline have been ...
made ATR-72 owned by Iran's Aseman Airlines sits on the tarmac at Dubai airport on July 29, 2008 (AFP Photo/MARWAN NAAMANI)/ Tehran (AFP) - An Iranian passenger plane has crashed into the country's Zagros mountains with more than 50 people on board, the head of the country's emergency services ...
The hunt for a plane that disappeared with 66 people onboard in Iran's Zagros mountains was stopped until morning as blizzard conditions made progress impossible for rescue teams, state television said Sunday. "With the wind intensifying, and with snow, rain and darkness, it is not possible for ...
All 66 passengers and crew members aboard an Iranian commercial plane are feared dead after the aircraft crashed into the Zagros Mountains on Sunday. One child was on the plane at the time of the crash, according to the The Aseman Airlines plane departed the country's capital of Tehran at 8:00 a ...
on Sunday reportedly channeled his faith just moments before takeoff, sending his girlfriend one last text./ “May God protect us to arrive safe,” the unnamed passenger wrote to his girlfriend, also sending a photo of the ATR-72 jet’s propeller,/ abgestürzten Maschine war, schickte seiner ...
(TEHRAN) — An Iranian commercial plane crashed on Sunday in a foggy, mountainous region of southern Iran, likely killing all 65 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 ...
The wreckage of an Iranian plane that crashed with 65 people on board was found in central Iran, state media said on Monday, but aviation authorities could not confirm the report. The Aseman Airlines flight from Tehran disappeared from radar screens on Sunday 50 minutes into its journey to the ...
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 ...
Iranian rescue teams battled weather and mountainous terrain Monday as they searched for the wreckage of a plane that crashed with 65 people on board. The Aseman Airlines flight left Tehran Sunday morning for the city of Yasuj in Isfahan province, but went down in the Zagros mountains. Officials ...
Iranian rescue teams were still trying to locate the wreckage of a plane on Monday a day after it crashed with 65 people on board, as glacial temperatures and mountainous terrain hampered their search. The Aseman Airlines flight from Tehran disappeared from radar screens on Sunday 50 minutes ...
Family members mourn those lost in the crash near Bideh, Iran, on Feb. 18./ Tehran, Iran (AP) -- Iranian search and rescue teams on Monday reached the site of a plane crash the previous day that authorities say killed all 65 people on board, Iran's Press TV reported./ The Aseman Airlines ATR-72, ...
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 ...
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, ...
state media/ LONDON (Reuters) - Wreckage of an Iranian plane that crashed with 65 people on board on Sunday was found in central Iran, state media reported. The deputy governor of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad province was quoted by state media as saying on Monday that the wreckage was found near ...
An Iran Aseman Airlines passenger jet reportedly crashed in a mountainous area south of Tehran. (Reuters)/ A commercial airliner has crashed in southern Iran, killing all 66 people aboard, an airline spokesman told Iran state television Sunday./ The plane carried 60 passengers, including one ...
Plane went down in mountainous region at 3,500 metres/ Members of an emergency and rescue team search for the plane that crashed in a mountainous area of central Iran. (Tasnim News Agency/Reuters)/ The wreckage of an Iranian plane that crashed with 65 people on board on Sunday was found in ...
A plane crashed into an Iranian mountain Sunday, and all 65 people on board were reportedly killed. While the government says the 25-year-old turboprop lost its way in thick clouds, some suspect that it malfunctioned — a chronic problem in a country with an air fleet that is decrepit after ...
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 ...
All 66 passengers and crew were believed to have been killed in a plane crash in central Iran on Sunday, an airline spokesman said, after the domestic flight came down in bad weather in a mountainous region. Operated by Iranian carrier Aseman Airlines, the plane crashed near the town of Semirom ...
- 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
All 66 passengers and crew on an Iranian plane that crashed in a mountainous area of central Iran on Sunday are believed to be dead, state television quoted the airline’s spokesman as saying./ “Aseman Airlines public relations head said that all on board are unfortunately dead,” the television ...
Country has seen a spate of deadly aviation accidents in recent years/ Relatives of passengers who were believed to have been killed in a plane crash react near the town of Semirom, Iran, on Sunday. (Tasnim News Agency via Reuters)/ An Iranian commercial airplane brought back into service only ...
TEHRAN — An Iranian commercial airplane brought back into service only months ago after being grounded for seven years crashed Sunday in a foggy, mountainous region of southern Iran, and officials feared all 65 people on board were killed. The crash of the Aseman Airlines ATR-72 marks yet ...
Aseman Airlines spokesman Mohammad Taghi Tabatabai told state TV that all on board Flight No. EP3704 were killed/ Those on board included 59 passengers and six crew members/ Under decades of international sanctions, Iran's commercial passenger aircraft fleet has aged/ TEHRAN: An Iranian ...
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 ...
The UN peacekeeping agency in southern Lebanon has said four of its soldiers have been injured in a rocket attack on one of its bases. The Italian soldiers were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil) base in Shama, south-west Lebanon, ...
The International Criminal Court issued an arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces arrest if he travels to the UK, after an international arrest warrant was issued for him, Downing Street has indicated. A No 10 spokesman refused to ...
Benjamin Netanyahu, Yoav Gallant and Mohammed Deif/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has condemned as "antisemitic" a decision by the International Criminal Court to issue arrest warrants for war crimes against him and ex-Defence Minister Yoav Gallant. He said the ICC was "falsely" ...
for Israel’s current Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has triggered a furious response from leading Israelis across the political spectrum. By contrast it has been welcomed by Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and ordinary citizens in Gaza. Leading ...
Benjamin Netanyahu (L), Yoav Gallant (C) and Mohammed Deif (R)/ Judges at the International Criminal Court (ICC) have issued arrest warrants for Israel’s prime minister and former defence minister, as well as the military commander of Hamas. A statement said a pre-trial chamber had rejected ...
At least 22 people were reportedly killed in a strike in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood of Gaza City/ Dozens of people are reported to have been killed in overnight Israeli air strikes in northern Gaza. Paramedics and Hamas-affiliated media said at least 66 were killed, including women and ...
Amos Hochstein (L) held talks with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (R) for a second day in Beirut/ A US envoy has arrived in Israel to continue negotiations on a ceasefire with Lebanon's Hezbollah movement, after reporting “additional progress” during a second day of talks in Beirut. ...
The US has blocked a Gaza ceasefire draft resolution at the United Nations Security Council - the fourth time it has used its veto power during the conflict to shield its ally, Israel. Fourteen of the 15 Council members voted in favour of the draft, which demanded that the war in Gaza "must end ...
Israel’s military says its offensive in Beit Lahia and other areas of northern Gaza targets regrouping Hamas fighters/ Palestinians are "facing diminishing conditions for survival" in parts of northern Gaza under siege by Israeli forces because virtually no aid has been delivered in 40 days, the ...
based monitoring group posted a video that it said showed the aftermath of the strikes in Palmyria/ At least 36 people have been killed and 50 others injured in Israeli air strikes on residential buildings and an industrial area in the central Syrian town of Palmyra, Syrian state media report. ...