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66 die as Aseman Airlines’ ATR crashes into the Central Iran mountains!

TEHRAN: Sixty passengers and six crew members died when an ATR-72 (twin-engine turboprop) aircraft operated by Aseman Airlines* – flying from here to Yasouj (city situated in the southwestern province of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad) – crashed into the Central Iranian mountains today.

According to details, the aircraft fell prey to the inclement weather conditions and disappeared from radar. It crashed into the (440m high) Dena mountain range in Isfahan province’s Semirom region.

Sources privy to Newspakistan.tv have informed that, due to fog and difficult-to-get-to mountainous areas, so far the concerned authorities failed to reach the site of the crash.

Aseman Airlines’s destinations:

*Semi-private air carrier Aseman Airlines (country’s third-largest by fleet size) is owned by Civil Service Pension Foundation of Iran harboring a fleet of 29 aircraft (including six ATRs). It is pertinent to mention here that following the 2015 nuclear deal Iran aims to change its aging passenger aircraft fleet that (as experienced by PIA) results into regular accidents and has signed deals with European consortium Airbus and its American competitors Boeing. 

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.