Tehran – Dezful

On January 27, 1962 at 12:00 AM, Tehran – Dezful experienced a crash involving De Havilland DHC-3 Otter, operated by United States Army, with the event recorded near Mt Zagros Chahar Mahaal and Bakhtiari.

The flight was categorized as military and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

5 people were known to be on board, 3 fatalities were recorded, 2 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 60.0%.

Crew on board: 1, crew fatalities: 1, passengers on board: 4, passenger fatalities: 2, other fatalities: 0.

While cruising at an altitude of 3,600 meters in poor weather conditions, the single engine aircraft crashed in the Zagros Mountains, some 500 km south of Tehran. The wreckage was found few days later and two passengers were evacuated seriously wounded by low temperatures. The three other occupants were killed. Crew: Maj Carter, pilot. † Passengers: Col Walter R. Johnson, † Cpt Daniel Knotts, † Col Vann, Col John Porter.

Aircraft reference details include registration 55-3317, MSN 182, year of manufacture 1956.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately 32.4913°, 50.9006°.