One of the final images of Ms Basaran shows her in her seat on the private jet holding a bouquet of flowers, surrounded by heart-shaped balloons.
The jet, a Canadian-made Bombardier Challenger, was reportedly owned by the company run by Ms Basaran's father, business tycoon Huseyin Basaran.
The flight took off Sunday from Sharjah International Airport in the UAE, and a little over an hour into the flight, the aircraft rapidly gained altitude and then dropped drastically within minutes, according to flight-tracking website FlightRadar24.
Authorities have so far recovered ten bodies from the crash site in the Zagros Mountains outside of the city of Shahr-e Kord, some 230 miles south of Iran's capital, Tehran, according to a report by the state-run IRNA news agency.
Heavy rains and wind in the mountain range since the crash Sunday made it impossible for helicopters to land in the area, though officials hoped to bring the bodies down from the mountain later in the day, IRNA said.
Families of the victims arrived Monday in Shahr-e Kord, accompanied by Turkish diplomats, IRNA reported.
Ms Basaran had been due to get married next month, and had whisked away her seven friends to Dubai to celebrate.
They have been named by local media as Zeynep Coşkun, Ayşe And, Burcu Urfalı, Aslı İzmirli, Liana Hananel, Jasmin Baruh and Sinem Akay.
Among the group were a jewellery designer, and the founder of a bikini line. Another had recently posted images of her November wedding on her Instagram. One of the young women has been confirmed as a British citizen.
A British Foreign Office spokesman said: 'We are currently investigating the reported sentencing of a British-Iranian dual national with the Iranian authorities.'
Ms Basaran had been sharing glimpses of the hen party with her 75,000 followers on Instagram.
On Thursday she posted a photograph on Instagram showing her standing on the tarmac in front of the plane wearing a jacket that says '#bettertogether Mrs Bride'.
On Saturday she posted an image smiling surrounded by her seven friends in pink robes - Mina in white - at a resort in Dubai.
'#minasbachelorette #bettertogether' she captioned the image.
The last videos posted to her account showed her and friends enjoying a concert by pop star Rita Ora at a popular Dubai nightclub.
Ms Basaran worked for her father's company Basaran Holdings. Mr Basaran is a former deputy chairman of Trabzonspor football club and owns businesses that span yachts to energy, according to Reuters.
He also runs a series of luxury apartment blocks in Istanbul named 'Mina Towers' after his daughter.
Mina was a part of the company's board of managers and was in line to run the business that included real estate.
Villagers near the crash say they saw flames coming from the plane's engine before the crash, according to a report by Iran's state-run judiciary news agency Mizan.
'The plane is on fire. After the pilot asked to lower altitude, it disappeared from the radar,' Tasnim quoted an ICAO official as saying.
'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 humanitarian organization Turkish Red Crescent Kerem Kinik, said on Twitter.
God help us. Too many plane crash and helicopter lately.
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