Engine fire could cause Turkish plane crash

Beijing. March 12. Silkroadnews - Engine fire could cause a crash by the Bombardier Challenger 600 private Turkish plane in Iran, the Iranian Telegraph Agency (IrTAG) reports referring to Mojtaba Khalidi, spokesman for the Iranian Emergency Center, quoted by the ISNA news agency.
“The plane crashed over a fire in the engine and local residents saw the flaming jet,” he said.
Earlier, IrTAG reported, the private Turkish plane going en route from the city of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates to Istanbul disappeared from the radar screens at 6:50 p.m. local time. The plane crashed near Shahr-e Kord in a mountainous region in southwestern Iran, 400 km south of Tehran.
All eleven people onboard, including eight passengers and three crew members, were killed.
Due to bad weather conditions and heavy rains in the area of the crash the rescuers, as noted, could not promptly reach the site of the plane crash.