Rescue teams recover black boxes at site of Iran plane crash 3/5/2018 8:10:40 AM A twin-engined turboprop ATR-72 Aseman Airlines plane that crashed in central Iran. Tehran, AFP, 4  March 20  18  - Rescue teams have recovered the black boxes of a plane that crashed last month in the mountains of southwestern Iran leaving 66 people dead, official media reported on Sunday. “The box that recorded flight parameters and the one with conversations in the cockpit have been handed over to judicial authorities,” Reza Jafarzadeh, the public relations director of Iran’s civil aviation organization, told official news agency IRNA. Jafarzadeh said the two black boxes of the Aseman Airlines ATR-72 were found on Saturday by rescue teams, who had resumed search operations in the Zagros mountains on Friday after bad weather forced them to halt efforts for nearly a week. They were to be handed over to investigators seeking to determine the cause of the accident. T...