Hen night horror: tycoon’s daughter Mina Basaran and friends among 11 killed in private plane crash in Iran

Basaran, due to marry next month, was on board the small jet with seven friends, returning from her hen party in Dubai

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Mina Basaran (back centre) and her seven hen's night friends were all believed to have been killed in the plane crash. They are pictured in Dubai as they celebrated, in this image shared on Basaran's social media accounts just before the plane crash. Photo: Instagram / Mina Basaran

Published: 1:00am, 12 Mar 2018Updated: 1:41pm, 13 Mar 2018

Investigators on Monday found the “black box” from a Turkish private jet that crashed in an Iranian mountain range on its way from the United Arab Emirates to Istanbul, killing all 11 people on board, including a socialite bride-to-be and seven friends celebrating her hen night.

Authorities recovered all the dead from the crash site in the Zagros Mountains outside the city of Shahr-e Kord, some 370km south of Iran’s capital, Tehran, according to a report by the state-run IRNA news agency.

Officials have so far identified eight bodies, including that of Mina Basaran, the 28-year-old daughter of billionaire Huseyin Basaran, chairman of Turkey’s Basaran Investment Holding, the semi-official Mehr news agency reported Monday.

Mina Basaran on her way to Dubai on a private plane, which later crashed on the way home to Turkey, killing her and her friends. Photo: Instagram / Mina Basaran

Mina Basaran posted this photo last Thursday as she boarded a private jet bound for her hen party in Dubai with seven friends. All would die when the plane crashed on Sunday on the return journey to Turkey. Photo: Mina Basaran/Twitter

Heavy rains and wind in the mountain range since the crash on Sunday made it impossible for helicopters to land in the area. Officials hoped to bring the bodies down from the mountain later, IRNA said.

Families of the victims arrived on Monday in Shahr-e Kord, accompanied by Turkish diplomats, IRNA reported.

Hen night horror: tycoon’s daughter Mina Basaran and friends among 11 killed in private plane crash in Iran

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Basaran, due to marry next month, was on board the small jet with seven friends, returning from her hen party in Dubai