A wealthy Turkish socialite and her friends were among the 11 people killed on Sunday when a private plane bringing them home from a Dubai bachelorette party crashed into an Iranian mountainside. .
Reuters reports that the plane was owned by the private holding company of Turkish businessman, Huseyin Basaran, and carried eight passengers and three crew.
Those on board included Basaran’s daughter Mina and seven of her friends, all flying back from a party ahead of her planned wedding next month. .
Basaran, a former deputy chairman of Trabzonspor football club, owns businesses that span yachts to energy.
His construction projects include a series of luxury apartment blocks on Istanbul’s Asian side called “Mina Towers”, named after his daughter.
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