The black box from Mina Basarans private jet that crashed in Iran while travelling from the United Arab Emirates to Istanbul on March 11, has been recovered.
Mina, heiress to a Turkish billionaire, seven of her friends and three crew members all died in the crash.
The report byIrans state-run IRNA news agency also stated that officials have recovered 10 bodies so far from the crash in the Zagros Mountains outside of the city of Shahr-e Kord, some 370 kilometers south of the Iranian capital Tehran.
The Sharjah civil aviation authorities said the planes eight passengers were six Turks and two Spaniards. Three others were the flight crew.
The aircraft days earlier carried a bachelorette party bound for Dubai.
Search and rescue teams were deployed to the area of the incident, Kerem Knk, the head of the Turkish Red Crescent, wrote on Twitter on March 11.
The three crew members as well as the eight passengers on board were also identified as female.
A plane belonging to Turkey has crashed near Irans western city of Shahre Kord. The Iranian Red Crescent Society has dispatched 10 teams to the disaster area in ChaharMahal and Bakhtiari province to search for possible survivors, Knk said in his tweet.
Iranian state television quoted Mojtaba Khaledi, the spokesman of the countrys emergency management organization, as saying the plane hit a mountain in Shahr-e Kord and burst into flames.
The plane took off around 4:41 p.m. (1311 GMT; 9:11 a.m. EST) on March 11 and reached a cruising altitude of just over 35,000 feet, according to FlightRadar24, a flight-tracking website. At around 6:01 p.m. (1431 GMT; 10:31 a.m. EST), something appears to have gone wrong with the flight as it rapidly gained altitude and then dropped drastically within minutes, data published by the website showed.
The semi-official Fars news agency said the plane took off from Sharjah International Airport on its way to Istanbul. A private company that handles public relations for the Sharjah airfield, the home of low-cost airline Air Arabia, declined to immediately comment to the Associated Press. Sharjah is a neighboring emirate of Dubai.
Turkeys private Doan News Agency identified the plane as a Bombardier CL604, tail number TC-TRB. The Turkish Transport Ministry said the plane belongs to Baaran Holding.
Mina Baaran, a 28-year-old woman who is part of Baaran Holdings board of managers and is in line to run the business, posted photographs on Instagram of what appeared to be her bachelorette party in Dubai.
Among the photographs was an image of the crashed plane posted three days ago.
The last videos posted to her account showed her and friends enjoying a concert by the British pop star Rita Ora at a popular Dubai nightclub. There was no further activity on her account after that.
The crash of the Turkish jet comes after an Iranian ATR-72, a twin-engine turboprop used for short-distance regional flying, crashed in southern Iran, killing all 65 people on board in February.
Source: NAN