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...

Hazardous effort to recover bodies from plane crash in Iran mountains 2/20/2018 8:03:53 PM   facebook Google+ ► Print Wreckage of an Iranian airliner is seen in the Zagros mountains AFP, Feb. 20, 2018  -  Iranian rescue teams struggled to recover bodies on Tuesday from the wreckage of a plane that crashed in hazardous terrain near a mountain peak two days earlier with 66 people on board. 'Deep and dangerous crevices in the area of the crash have made it impossible for helicopters to land,' Ghafoor Rastinrooz, director of the regional medical Centre, told official news agency IRNA. 'The bodies must be transferred by hand to the foot of the mountain which will be time-consuming,' he said. Aseman Airlines flight EP3704 disappeared from radar as it flew over the Zagros mountain range on Sunday morning, around 45 minutes after taking off from Tehran on a domestic flight. After two days of heavy snow and fog, the weather finally cleared o...