IFP - An official with the Civil Aviation Organization of Iran blamed the pilot and co-pilot for the February crash of an ATR passenger plane that killed 66 people in southwestern Iran. In a recent meeting with the managers of Iranian airlines in Tehran, the Civil Aviation Organization official, Hassan Rezaeefar, put the blame for the fatal crash ...

IRNA Managing Director of Kohkiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Province office of forensic medicine said all victims of Yasuj air crash were identified. The dead bodies are ready to be delivered to their families, Kamrouz Amini told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Monday. Sixty-one dead bodies have so far been delivered to their families, he ...

IRNA - Deputy Governor General of Kohkiloyeh-Boyer Ahmad Province Aziz Fili said that rescue operation is underway to find the remaining dead bodies of victims of Yasuj plane crash. The Iran Aseman Airlines plane with 59 passengers and six crew members was flying from Tehran to Yasuj on February 18, but after 55 minutes it disappeared from radar about ...

IRNA Based on the results of tests and genetic sampling, identity of 60 victims of Tehran-Yasuj air crash was clarified, said director general of Kohkiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad Forensic Department. Kamrouz Amini told IRNA on Sunday, identity of the 60 victims of the crashed plane have been clarified out of a total of 212 human tissues found on the site....

IFP- An Iranian official says the search for victims of the February plane crash in south-western Iran is continuing non-stop in areas near the peak of the Dena Mountain. By the order of the governor of Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad [Province], the search for remnants of victims was not stopped even during Nowruz [the Persian New Year] holidays, Aziz ...

MNA Iran Civil Aviation Organization has permitted Aseman Airlines to resume operation of its ATR-72 planes following their grounding over the Feb. 8 plane crash with 65 people on board. In a statement issued Monday, IranCivil Aviation Organization gave Aseman Airlinespermission to resume operation of the -200 and -500 variants of ATR-72 aircraft,...

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Tasnim A preliminary report by the Civil Aviation Organization of Iran has mentioned medical history of the pilot of an ATR passenger plane that crashed in southwestern Iran in February, citing his open-heart surgery and the medical limitations in his license. The preliminary report, released on March 11, includes a review of circumstances of the ...

Financial Tribune- Two ministers will be summoned to parliament next week to attend an impeachment session called over their failure to address a string of issues, including aviation safety that received a setback after a recent plane crash in central Iran. Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi and Minister of Cooperatives, Labor ...

IRNA The black box of the crashed Iranian ATR plane will be sent to France on Thursday, Head of Iran parliament development commission said. 'Due to lack of required equipment for deciphering the black box in Iran, it will be sent to France,' Mohammad Reza Rezaee Kouchi told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Tuesday. Information of ...

FNA - A senior Iranian economic official announced on Monday that the country will likely transfer the black box of the ATR-72 plane which crashed in the mountainous areas in the Central parts of the country last month to France for further investigation. "The black box of the ATR plane was found and is under preliminary studies by experts," Managing-...

IRNA Information of black box of the crashed Iranian ATR plane needs technical examination to be decoded, and France as the manufacturer of the plane will help Iran in this regard, an Iranian official announced here on Monday. Decoding the information of the black box which was founded on March 4 is possible in Iran, but the Iranian experts may ...

IFP- An Iranian Red Crescent Society official said climbers searching for the black box of a plane that crashed south of Isfahan province last month have found new pieces of the plane that could contain its black box. Hossein Derakhshan, the spokesperson of the Iranian Red Crescent Societys Relief and Rescue Organisation, announced on Saturday ...

AP--Irans semi-official ISNA news agency is reporting that research teams have found the black box belonging to the airplane that crashed in southern Iran in February, killing 65 people. The Saturday report quotes Deputy Provincial Gov. Aziz Fili as saying the black box containing crucial flight data was found by search teams on Mount Dena. The ...

IRNA Managing Director of Red Crescent Society in Kohgiloyeh province Amanallah Jahanbin said on Thursday that climate situation in area of plane crash in Dena Heights prevented continuation of search for remains of the killed people in the day 11 of operation. He told Islamic Republic News Agency that weather in the region is foggy and there is ...

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IRNA Director General for supervising bureau on Civil Aviation Organization Mohammad Saeed Sharafi said on Tuesday that considering bad climate situation in Dena height, a professional team of mountaineers are to go to the area on Wednesday to find the black box of Aseman Airline crashed ATR plane. Flight No. 3704 of Aseman Airline with 60 passengers ...

Tasnim The head of the Red Crescent Society of Isfahan Province said two 30-strong teams have been dispatched to Mount Dena in southwest Iran, where an ATR plane recently crashed, in order to assess the situation. Sparking to the Tasnim News Agency, Mohsen Momeni said the two teams were sent to the crash zone on Monday morning to examine the situation ...

IRNA - Iran banned flights of all its ATR-72 aircraft following the crash of an ATR passenger plane which claimed the lives of 66 people on board this week. 'In order to make sure about improvement of this type of aircraft's safety, it is necessary to stop their flights temporarily,' the Civil Aviation Organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran's ...

IRNA A seven-member delegation from France is going to examine the site of the ATR plane crash on top of the Dena mountain in Yasouj, southwestern Iran, to find the black box of the plane, said Member of Iran's Majlis (Parliament) Asghar Salimi. The French delegation arrived in Iran on Tuesday night to examine the reason behind the crash of an ...