Mystery solved? US-registered plane in Iran owned by Ghana firm
The US-registered plane seen at an Iranian airport this week is owned and operated by a Ghana-based engineering firm and carried no Americans.
The mystery of a US-registered plane spotted at a Tehran airport this week and reported on by the New York Times has apparently been solved.
The US-registered Bombardier corporate jet, carrying the registration number N604EP, is owned and operated by a Ghana-based engineering firm, an aviation expert said Friday. The visitors it bought to Iran last week were senior Ghanaian officials, an Iranian foreign ministry spokeswoman said Friday.
The plane was chartered by Ghanaian officials, no American was on board, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokeswoman told Iranian media Friday, journalist Mojtaba Mousavi and Shargh newspaper reported.
Tyler Bowron, an aviation expert at Cerretanni Aviation group in Boulder, Colorado, told Al-Monitor that the company that in fact owns and operates the plane is called Engineers and Planners, based in Accra, Ghana.
