Just one day before her tragic death, Miss Basaran posted a photo alongside her bridesmaids celebrating the ill-fated hens trip. Photo / Instagram
Just one day before her tragic death, Miss Basaran posted a photo alongside her bridesmaids celebrating the ill-fated hens trip. Photo / Instagram
Instagram pictures from a wealthy socialite shows how she and her friends were enjoying a hens' party before they were tragically killed.
The bridal party of eight women died when their private plane crashed into an Iranian mountainside and bust into flames yesterday.
Mina Basaran, 28, who is the daughterof wealthy Turkish businessman Huseyin Basaran was flying with her closest friends in the aircraft — which was bringing them home from a Dubai hens' party. The wedding had been planned for next month.
The last photo on Barasan'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 luxury hotel, One & Only Royal Mirage, Dubai.
Turkish socialite Mina Basaran can be seen holding heart-shaped balloons inside an aircraft in a picture posted just three days ago. The bride-to-be died in the plane crash. Photo / Instagram
By late on Sunday evening, just a few hours after news of the crash, there were more than 7000 comments on the photo.
She also posted a photo three days ago of the plane on the tarmac carrying flowers, wearing a denim jacket reading "Mrs Bride" and the hashtag "#bettertogether".
She can be seen holding heart-shaped balloons inside an aircraft in a picture posted just three days ago.
The last video on her Instagram page shows her attending a concert by the British pop star Rita Ora at a popular Dubai nightclub.
The plane was owned by the private holding company of her father, Turkish businessman Basaran, and carried eight passengers and three crew, an official for Turkey's transport ministry said.
It plummeted into a mountainous region of Iran in heavy rain and burst into flames shortly after taking off from Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates.
Basaran, a former deputy chairman of Turkish football club Trabzonspor, owns businesses that span yachts to energy.
Holding a bouquet of flowers, Miss Basaran posed in front of the private plane wearing a denim jacket embroidered with the words "Mrs Bride" and "better together". Photo / Instagram
One of his companies is the top shareholder in Bahrain Middle East Bank BSC, a small investment bank. His construction projects include a series of luxury apartment blocks on Istanbul's Asian side called "Mina Towers", named after his daughter.
"The wreck of the jet and the bodies are found. They will be carried down from the mountain when sun comes up. My condolences to those who lost their loved ones," the head of the Turkish Red Crescent, Kerem Kinik, said on Twitter, citing his Iranian sister organisation.
Local residents who had reached the site of the crash said there appeared to be no survivors and victims' bodies were burnt, ISNA news agency reported, quoting Mojtaba Khaledi, spokesman for Iran's emergency services.
Sunday's crash comes less than a month after an Iranian ATR-72, a twin-engine turboprop used for short regional flights, crashed in southern Iran, killing all 65 people aboard.
