11 women die in Turkish jet crash

Tehran: Eleven women died when a private plane crashed in Iran while flying the daughter of a prominent Turkish businessman and her friends home from a hen party

Updated At : 06:22 AM Mar 13, 2018 IST

Tehran: Eleven women died when a private plane crashed in Iran while flying the daughter of a prominent Turkish businessman and her friends home from a hen party. The Bombardier Challenger 604, carrying Mina Basaran and seven of her friends from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to Istanbul, went down in southwestern Iran on Sunday. Three crew, all women, were also on board. Iran’s Civil Aviation Organisation said the plane crashed after the pilot had asked to descend due to a “technical problem”. The aviation agency said six of the eight passengers were Turkish citizens and the other two Spanish. AFP