Plane with 66 Passengers Crashes in Iran
Plane with 66 Passengers Crashes in Iran

 An Aseman Airlines flight with 65 passengers on board crashed near Samirom, Isfahan province, on Sunday morning. 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. Several helicopters have […]

 An Aseman Airlines flight with 65 passengers on board crashed near Samirom, Isfahan province, on Sunday morning.

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.

Several helicopters have been deployed to search the crash site near Padena mountain, and search and rescue operation is underway. There is no immediate details over the casualties.

A spokesman for the Iranian emergency organization said it was not possible to send ambulances to the mountainous area, but choppers are being deployed.