Media reports in Turkey said the eight passengers were Mina Basaran, the daughter of a leading Turkish businessman, and her seven friends who had spent the past days in the UAE to celebrate her marriage.The reports, carried by the Hurriyet daily and several Turkish TV channels, said the Bombardier Challenger 604 private plane belonged the Basaran Holding company of Mina´s father Huseyin.
The Istanbul-based Basaran Holding Company is active in the energy, construction and tourism sectors. It also owns hotels.Reports said that just a day before, the eight young women had posted a picture on social media of themselves smiling and relaxing in Dubai.
The reports said that Mina Basaran had also posted a picture on social media of her boarding the same Bombardier plane before it left Istanbul for the UAE.Iranian media said the plane went down in a remote mountain in the snow-capped Zagros range during bad weather.The plane had left from the emirate of Sharjah and went down near the city of Shahr-e Kord, about 400 kilometres (250 miles) south of Tehran, Iranian state television reported.Reza Jafarzadeh, head of the Iran Civil Aviation Organisation, confirmed it had eight passengers and three crew members on board.The cause of the crash was not immediately clear.Hurriyet said both pilots on the plane were women as was the crew member, meaning all those on board are female.The head of Iran´s Red Crescent, Morteza Salimi, told state television that two helicopters would fly to the area on Monday morning "to search for the plane´s debris and bodies" -- indicating there could be no survivors.
The Zagros range was the scene of another aviation tragedy in February, when an ATR-72 twin engine passenger plane of Iran´s Aseman Airlines crashed there killing all 66 people on board.
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