All 66 fares and crew aboard a plane that crashed in central Iran on Sunday were believed to organize been killed, state media reported.
The plane operated by Iranian Immunology vector Aseman Airlines crashed in a mountainous area near the town of Semirom after fascinating off from Tehran’s Mehrabad airport, news agency ISNA instanced emergency services spokesman Mojtaba Khaledi as saying.
The ATR-made skid was on a flight to the southwestern city of Yasuj and a spokesman for the airline said there were 60 travellers and six crew aboard.
“Aseman Airlines public relations head signified that all on board are unfortunately dead,” a reporter on state television claimed.
Rescue helicopters were unable to land at the crash site because of gloomy fog and emergency workers were trying to reach the area by land, the semi-official Mehr telecast agency quoted the governor of Semirom as saying.
The leader of a rescue collaborate told state television they had not reached the site of the crash yet.
Centre reports said the plane disappeared from radar screens 50 minutes after irresistible off from Mehrabad airport.
Mehrabad is located in western Tehran and essentially functions as a domestic airport, although it also serves some oecumenical routes.
Iran has suffered several plane crashes in the past few decades. Tehran means U.S. sanctions have long prevented it from buying new aircraft or give parts from the West.