Iran plane crash: Aseman Airlines retracts number of death toll
After reporting that all 66 passengers and crew aboard a plane that crashed in central Iran on Sunday were believed to have been killed, Aseman Airlines retracted the death toll statement.
“Given the special circumstances of the region, we still have no access to the spot of the crash and therefore we cannot accurately and definitely confirm the death of all passengers of this plane,” Mohammad Tabatabaie, Aseman’s public relations chief, told the ISNA news agency.
#UPDATE Iran’s #AsemanAirlines retracts statement that all 66 people aboard a passenger plane died after it crashed in the Zagros mountains, as rescue teams struggle to find wreckage pic.twitter.com/HPsSjBF7Cd
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The plane operated by Iranian carrier Aseman Airlines crashed in a mountainous area near the town of Semirom after taking off from Tehran’s Mehrabad airport, news agency ISNA quoted emergency services spokesman Mojtaba Khaledi as saying.
The ATR-made plane was on a flight to the southwestern city of Yasuj and a spokesman for the airline said there were 60 passengers and six crew aboard.
Rescue helicopters were unable to land at the crash site because of heavy fog and emergency workers …read more
