A spokesperson for the Aseman Airlines said that the air crash killed all 66 people on board. The Iranian Red Crescent said it had deployed to the area, which was quite foggy at the time of the crash. Aviation safety specialist and former pilot David Learmount said weather in the mountains where the plane crashed was pretty bad. Under decades of international sanctions, Iran’s commercial passenger aircraft fleet has aged, with air accidents occurring regularly in recent years. – 2006 –On November 26, an Iranian military plane crashed in Tehran, killing 39 people of which 30 were members of the Revolutionary Guard — the Islamic regime’s ideological army.

Source: Pakistan Today February 18, 2018 07:52 UTC