Updated
Like many brides-to-be, Turkish heiress Mina Basaran shared snapshots of her hen's party on Instagram with a themed hashtag.
But celebrations were cut short when the wealthy 28-year-old and her friends were among the 11 people killed when the private plane bringing them home from Dubai crashed into an Iranian mountainside on Sunday (local time).
The plane was owned by a private holding company of her father, Turkish businessman Huseyin Basaran, and carried eight passengers and three crew, an official for Turkey's transport ministry said.
Mr Basaran, a former deputy chairman of Trabzonspor football club, owns businesses that span yachts to energy.
One of his companies is the top shareholder in Bahrain Middle East Bank BSC, a small investment bank.
Ms Basaran, reportedly the next in line to run his business, and seven of her friends, were all flying back from a party ahead of her planned wedding next month.
The last photo on Ms Basaran's Instagram account showed her surrounded by seven other young women, all wearing robes and sunglasses.
The post, tagged #minasbachelorette, said it was taken at the One and Only Royal Mirage luxury hotel in Dubai.
The bride-to-be had shared other images across the weekend of her on, and getting ready to board, the jet and within hours of the crash, there were thousands of comments on the Instagram photos offering condolences.
Investigators have located the black box from the jet and recovered 10 bodies from the crash site in the Zagros mountains near the city of Shahr-e Kord, approximately 370 kilometres south of Tehran, according to Iranian state-run media outlet IRNA.
Heavy rains and wind in the mountain range since the crash had made it impossible for helicopters to land in the area, though officials hoped it would clear to bring the bodies down from the mountain.
Families of the victims arrived in Shahr-e Kord accompanied by Turkish diplomats, IRNA reported.
A little over an hour into the flight, the aircraft rapidly gained altitude and then dropped drastically within minutes, according to FlightRadar24, a flight-tracking website.
It remains unclear what caused the crash, though a witness told state television the Bombardier CL604 was on fire before it hit the mountain.
Finding the aircraft's black box will help investigators trying to piece together what happened.
That equipment, typically painted in a bright colour to allow searchers to easily find it, records cockpit conversations and radio transmissions, as well as other data from a flight.
ABC/ Wires
Topics: accidents, disasters-and-accidents, air-and-space, iran-islamic-republic-of
First posted