Putin Offers Condolences to Rouhani over Plane Crash in Iran

TEHRAN (defapress)- Russia’s President Vladimir Putin send a telegram to Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani offering condolences over deaths of passengers and crew of the plane, which crashed on Sunday in Iran’s Isfahan, the Kremlin’s press service said on Sunday.

News ID: 68731

Date: 18 February 2018 - 17:47

"The president stressed Russia shares the grief of those who have lost their families and friends in the tragedy and wishes to them courage at this sorrowful time," the press service said.

Authorities lost track of a passenger plane with over 60 people on board on Sunday as it traveled from the capital to Yasouj, authorities said, suggesting that the aircraft has crashed in Central Iran and all passengers have been killed.

The ATR plane belonging to Aseman airline company was en route from Mehrabad international airport in Tehran to Yasouj, the center of Kohgilouyeh and Boyer Ahmad province in Western Iran, at 7:55 local time on Sunday morning and it disappeared from the radar of air traffic controllers 50 minutes later, Tabatabayee, the head of Aseman's public relations department, told FNA.