{"id":7442,"date":"2018-02-18T08:49:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T08:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=7442"},"modified":"2018-02-18T08:52:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T08:52:12","slug":"66-people-killed-in-plane-crash-in-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/66-people-killed-in-plane-crash-in-iran\/","title":{"rendered":"66 People killed in plane crash in Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-7443\" src=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Iran.jpg\" alt=\"Iran\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/>An Iranian passenger plane with 66 people on board has crashed in central Iran during a flight from Tehran to the city of Yasuj, killing all 66 people on board, according to Iranian news media reports.<br \/>\nThe plane crashed in a mountainous area near the town of Semirom on Sunday, the news agency ISNA quoted emergency services spokesman Mojtaba Khaledi as saying.<br \/>\nSemirom is a remote mountain town 620km south of Tehran.<br \/>\nThe Iranian Red Crescent said it had deployed to the area, which was quite foggy at the time of the crash.<br \/>\nState-run PressTV said the Aseman Airlines flight was carrying 60 passengers, including one child and six crew.<br \/>\nAseman Airlines is a semi-private air carrier headquartered in Tehran that specialises in flights to remote airfields across the country, and also flies internationally.<br \/>\nThe ATR-72, a twin-engine turboprop, is used for short-distance regional flying. Authorities said they would be investigating the crash.<br \/>\nUnder decades of international sanctions, Iran&#8217;s commercial passenger aircraft fleet has aged, with air accidents occurring regularly in recent years.<br \/>\nFollowing the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers, Iran signed deals with both Airbus and Boeing to buy scores of passenger planes.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/66-people-killed-in-plane-crash-in-iran\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Iranian passenger plane with 66 people on board has crashed in central Iran during a flight from Tehran to the city of Yasuj, killing all 66 people on board, according to Iranian news media reports. The plane crashed in a mountainous area near the town of Semirom on Sunday, the news agency ISNA quoted &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,2],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7442"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7446,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7442\/revisions\/7446"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}