TEHRAN, February 20 - French and Russian experts are going to arrive in Tehran on Tuesday to investigate the recent plane crash in Iran, said Head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization Ali Abdezadeh.
TEHRAN,Young Journalists Club (YJC) - Iranian forces have located the wreckage of a missing Aseman Airliner that crashed with 66 people on board in the country’s mountainous southwest on Sunday.
Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif, spokesman for Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), said that helicopters had spotted the wreckage on Tuesday morning.
The head of the Isfahan Province medical emergency center said that helicopters could not land at the crash site to transfer the bodies due to adverse weather and topographical conditions.
The captain of the helicopter that spotted the wreckage said the plane had crashed 30 meters below a hilltop, Presstv reported.
The fuselage has been broken into pieces and only a part bearing Aseman Airlines logo is visible, he added.
An official of the Iranian Red Crescent Society (IRCS) had said earlier that 80 search teams were conducting an operation at Mount Dena in the Zagros mountain range after weather conditions improved, according to Presstv.