After the plane wreckage of the ATR plane was found on Tuesday morning, all forces and helicopters are being mobilized to transfer the dead bodies of those killed in the plane crash on Sunday, Secretary-General of the IRCS Mahmoud Mahmoudinasab wrote on his website on Tuesday.
A spokesman of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps announced on Tuesday that the IRGC helicopters have found the debris of the Iranian passenger plane that crashed on Sunday.
Head of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps Public Relations Department and IRGC Spokesman General Ramezan Sharif confirmed that the IRGC helicopters have found the wreckage of the crashed ATR-72 plane on the heights of Dena mountain in Central Iran on Tuesday morning.
Authorities lost track of a passenger plane with 66 people on board on Sunday as it traveled from the capital to Yasouj in Central Iran.
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, Head of the public relations department of Aseman Airline Mohammad Taqi Tabatabayee told FNA on Sunday.
Also, Head of Iran's Emergency Medical Services Pir-Hossein Kolivand told FNA that the plane has crashed in a region near Semirom in the Central province of Isfahan.
