The office issued a statement Sunday morning saying the Boeing 737 was on a regularly scheduled flight when it crashed
The plane had departed from Miami and was likely only minutes away from landing at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston
The plane hit a building after the pilot chose the wrong runway while trying to land at Fath airport in Alborz province, just east of Tehran
The crash, the world's first of a Boeing Co 737 MAX jet, killed all 189 people on board and the main wreckage and second 'black box' were not recovered in an initial search
Meanwhile, drones and sonar technology has been deployed the Java Sea to search for the remains of the downed plane which crashed on Monday
The 2-month-old Boeing plane plunged into the Java Sea on Monday just minutes after takeoff from Jakarta, killing all 189 people on board
Jet Airways, SpiceJet operates the Boeing 737 MAX 8
The Boeing-737 MAX vanished from radar 13 minutes after taking off from Jakarta, plunging into the Java Sea moments after it had asked to return to the Indonesian capital
Monday's disaster was a blow to the country's aviation safety record after the lifting of bans on its airlines by the European Union and US
India born Bhavye Suneja had joined Lion Air in Jakarta in March 2011
The aircraft was reported to be a Boeing 737 MAX 8, a model only in use since 2016
'The police have the sad certainty that the 20 people aboard perished,' police spokeswoman Anita Senti told a news conference
The aircraft had taken off from the Pathankot air base at 12.20 pm
Crashed aircraft was on its first flight in four years
The King Air C90 12-seater aircraft, which took off from the Juhu airstrip, crashed in the Jagruti Nagar area of Ghatkopar
At least four pilots on the flight, which was travelling from Hong Kong to Istanbul via Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek The majority of the dead were from the village of Dacha-Suu where the cargo plane crashed at around 7.30 am local time, a spokesman for the country's emergency services, Muhammed Svarov, told AFP. The total number of dead "could be bigger" Svarov said, adding that authorities had launched a huge search and rescue operation. "Major work is underway," Svarov said. "The damage to infrastructure in the village is significant." At least four pilots on the flight, which was travelling from Hong Kong to Istanbul via Kyrgyzstan's capital Bishkek, were among the dead, the emergency services ministry said, with one pilot's body yet to be found. Around 43 houses were damaged by the crash, according to the emergency services ministry, which said that the accident sparked fires that spread, but have now been
Officials did not immediately say how long it would take to analyze their contents
According to the police, six survivors were rescued from the accident site, but one died while being taken to the hospital
Medellin's Mayor Federico Gutierrez said that it is possible there are survivors