Plane crashed found: IRGC

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News ID: 19602
Iran » Iran
Publish Date: 11:14 - 20 February 2018
TEHRAN, February 20 - IRGC’s helicopters found the body of the ATR-72 plane crashed in Dena heights.

Plane crashed found: IRGC

TEHRAN,Young Journalists Club (YJC) - IRGC’s spokesman Brigadier General Ramazan Sharif said that in a search and rescue operation on Tuesday morning the ATR-72 plane crashed in Dena heights.

The rescue operation is still continuing.

Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi, Iran’s Minister of Information and Communications Technology, also confirmed that the mobile phone of one of the passengers had been on after the crash and was sending signals from an area near the village of Kohangan.

Three-days after the passenger plane of Aseman Airlines which had 66 on board was lost on radar tracks, some dead bodies of the missed ATR-72 plane have been found. A number of 26 rescue teams along with 106 climbers have been dispatched to the estimated area of the accident, while the bad weather is hampering the search efforts in the mountainous region.

 

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