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Iran Aseman Airlines Flight 3704
Iran  Aseman  Airlines  Flight  3704 (EP3704/IRC3704)[a] was a
scheduled Iranian domestic passenger flight from Tehran to Yasuj operated by
Iran Aseman Airlines Flight
Iran Aseman Airlines. On 18 February 2018, the aircraft serving the flight, an
3704
ATR 72-200, crashed into Mount Dena in the Zagros Mountains near Noqol
village in Semirom county, Isfahan Province.[2] All 59 passengers and six crew
members on board are presumed to have been killed.[3][4][5][6] Searchers on
board Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Air Force helicopters sighted the
wreckage of the aircraft two days after the crash.[7][1]

EP-ATS, the aircraft involved in the

Contents crash, in 2006
Accident summary
Aircraft
Date 18 February 2018
Accident
Summary Under Investigation
Search
Site Dena Massif,
Aftermath Zagros Mountains
Reactions near Semirom, Iran
Notes Passengers 59
See also Crew 6
References Fatalities 65 (presumed)
External links Survivors 0 (presumed)
Aircraft type ATR 72-212
Operator Iran Aseman
Aircraft Airlines
Registration EP-ATS
The aircraft involved was an ATR 72-212 with MSN 391. It was registered EP-
Flight origin Mehrabad
ATS and was delivered to Iran Aseman Airlines in 1993. No serious incidents
International
were recorded during the 24 years of the aircraft's service in the airline.[6][8] Airport, Tehran, Iran

An Iranian source reported that the aircraft had recently resumed operations Destination Yasuj Airport, Yasuj,
Iran
after being out of service for seven years due to a lack of spare parts and that it
had technical problems during a flight some weeks before the crash. It was claimed that an Instagram post from Iran
Aseman two months prior to the crash, that announced the aircraft was back in service, had been deleted after it crashed.[3]

At the time of the accident, Iran Aseman had six ATR aircraft in its fleet, of which three were in operation.[3]

This accident is the sixth passenger airline ATR 72 fatal crash in this decade with a total of 306 deaths.[9]

Accident

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The aircraft was operating a domestic scheduled passenger flight from

Mehrabad International Airport, Tehran to Yasuj Airport, Yasuj, Iran.[10] It
took off from Tehran at about 04:30 UTC and crashed into Dena Mountain
about an hour later.[5] All 59 passengers and 6 crew on board were
presumed to be killed.[3][b] According to flight tracking website
Flightradar24, the last signal from the aircraft was received just before
05:56 UTC, when it was at an altitude of 16,975 feet (5,174  m) and was
descending.[11] The last radio contact air traffic control (ATC) had with the
crew was a few minutes earlier at 09:22 local time (05:52 UTC), when ATC
cleared the aircraft to descend from flight level (FL) 210—an altitude of
approximately 21,000 feet (6,400 m)—to FL170.[6]

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Search Aseman Airlines Flight 3704's flight route[1]

The Iranian Red Crescent said it intended to deploy a drone to that

area.[3][12] Due to foggy conditions, rescue helicopters could not reach
the crash site in the Zagros Mountains. Mount Dena, the location of the
crash site, is actually a mountain range within the Zagros Mountains; it
is 80 kilometres (50 mi) long with several peaks, the highest of which is
4,409 metres (14,465 ft) above sea level.[6][13] Weather conditions at the
crash site, including snow and strong winds, were hampering search and
rescue services.[6] Locals reported that they had heard the aircraft hit the
mountain, but conditions were such that helicopter searches took three Altitude of Aseman Airlines Flight 3704.
days to find the wreckage.[14] The wreckage was sighted on 20 February, Source: Flightradar24
30 metres (100 ft) below the peak of the mountains south of Noqol at an
elevation of approximately 4,000 metres (13,000 ft).[1] Helicopters have
been unable to access the site and an operation to bring bodies down the mountain on foot was suspended until 26
February.

Aftermath
On 23 February, the Civil Aviation Organization of Islamic Republic of Iran (CAO.IRI) temporarily suspended the
operation of Iran Aseman Airlines' ATR 72 aircraft.[15]

Reactions
Journalists have speculated that the economic sanctions against Iran which have prevented Iranian airlines from obtaining
new planes and spare parts and forced them to operate aging aircraft may have contributed to the cause of the crash.[16]

Notes
a. EP is the IATA designator and IRC is the ICAO airline designator.
b. The airline had also initially said 60 passengers and 6 crew were on board, but later said there were a total of 65
people on board, as 1 passenger had missed the flight.[3]

See also
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References
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(http://avherald.com/h?article=4b511c15&opt=0). The Aviation Herald. Retrieved 2018-02-23.
2. "Passenger plane crashes in southern Iran, killing 66 on board" (https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/airplane-mode/ira
n-plane-crash-passenger-aircraft-carrying-66-people-goes-down-n849136). NBC News. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
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2018.
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February 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
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man-airlines-flight-3704/). blog.flightradar24.com. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
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