Heavy snow and blizzards have hampered efforts by Iranian search-and-rescue teams to recover the bodies of the 66 people aboard a plane that crashed near a mountain peak in the country’s southwest.
Isfahan Governorate General Office said that 32 bodies have been recovered so far, but none of them have been transferred to the ground from the site of the crash, around 4,000 meters (13,000 feet) up snow-covered Mount Dena.
However, an Army commander said that commandos were transferring seven bodies all the way down to the foot of the mountain, and that efforts would be made to transfer the rest within the next few hours.
The Aseman Airlines ATR-72 plane was flying over the Zagros mountain range to the southwestern city of Yasuj on Sunday when it disappeared from the radar around the town of Semirom in Isfahan Province.
Helicopters managed to spot the plane’s debris three days later after weather conditions improved.
Meanwhile, Minister of Roads and Urban Development Abbas Akhoundi said all efforts were directed towards finding the black box to find out what exactly caused the airliner to go down.
A deputy Army commander also said that helicopters failed to reach the mountaintop due to poor visibility.
Local officials said rescue teams are only engaged in ground operations as the visibility has been reduced to two meters in the region.
The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) also said that 24 expert teams carrying 30 stretchers were climbing the mountain to recover he bodies .
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