The couple Sayed Tahmasebi and Nilofer Ebrahim was among 176 passengers killed when a plane of Ukraine International Airlines crashed to the ground in a matter of minutes after takeoff. The pair were on the doomed flight Tehran-Kiev is only a tragic coincidence: the couple stayed in the country, waiting for will be ready the wedding photos. This waiting cost them their lives.
Tahmasebi and Ebrahim were married in St John’s Wood (London) in December, and then went to Iran to hold a second ceremony in the historic homeland.
Friends and relatives of the couple returned to Britain immediately after the wedding, but the couple decided to stay a few more days to take pictures and then have to go home.
Brother Nilofar, Amir, talked to them on the phone just 10 minutes before takeoff. There were no signs of trouble.
«Our hearts are broken. — Amir says — They stayed in Tehran only because I wanted to wait a couple days and take wedding photos».
«They were wonderful, incredibly happy couple. — adds sister Tahmasebi, 41-year-old Sally — it’s All so awful, what even words not to describe.»
«Syed was the sweetest guy ever with a huge heart. All his friends adored».
Tahmasebi — PhD and engineer in Laing O’rourke was one of three Britons who died on Board the Ukrainian Boeing, which was heading from Tehran to Kiev. In the incident, whose causes are still murky, killing 176 people.
