Plane crashes in Iran
Iran, in the year 2018-19, had witnessed many such fateful air accidents. One such event took place on February 18, 2018, at the Zagros Mountains in Iran where an Aseman Airlines plane, en route from Tehran to the south-western city of Yasuj, crashed near the city of Semirom in Isfahan province. Then, on January 14, 2019, a decade-old Iranian Boeing 707 military cargo crash landed west of Iran's capital. The accident took 15 lives, leaving a sole survivor. In a recent unfortunate plane crash, an Iranian Air Force's fighter jet crashed in the northwestern province of Ardabil on December 25, 2019.