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A passenger plane with 180 passengers on Board fell into the Tehran airport, Imam Khomeini on Wednesday
Photo: IRNA News Agency / twitter.com
The representative of the Ministry of aviation of Iran, Jaafar Zadeh said that on Board were 167 passengers. They all died
Photo: Iranian_RCS / twitter.com
The cause of the fall, presumably, is some kind of technical malfunction. Reference service of the airline “Ukraine International airlines” (UIA) has stopped responding to calls after news of the crash of its airliner in Tehran
Photo: Iranian_RCS / twitter.com
A passenger plane with 167 passengers and 9 crew members on Board fell into the Tehran airport, Imam Khomeini on Wednesday, January 8.
As reported by Tashim, Boeing 737-800 belonging to “International airlines of Ukraine” and flying to Kiev flight PS752, fell immediately after takeoff. The pilots stopped responding to calls Manager. The signal of the plane disappeared from FlightRadar24 website.
The representative of the Ministry of aviation of Iran, Jaafar Zadeh said, RIA “Novosti” that all people who were onboard were killed. According to the foreign Ministry of Ukraine, on Board the Boeing were citizens of seven countries: 82 Iranian, 63 canadian citizen, 11 – Ukraine (the crew was Ukrainian), 10 – Sweden, 4 – Afghanistan, 3 – Germany and Britain. In turn, the Iranian foreign Ministry will publish other information: on Board were citizens of five countries – 147 citizens of Iran and 32 of the foreigner from Ukraine (11 citizens), Afghanistan (11 citizens), Canada (6 citizens) and Sweden (4 citizens).
The crash happened shortly after the missile attack of Iran on a U.S. military base in Iraq. Many countries have suspended flights of its aircraft in the airspace of Iran and Iraq after the Iranian army attacked military bases on Iraqi territory. However, while the cause of the fall, presumably, called a technical fault.
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Iranian state news Agency IRNA published the preliminary conclusions of the Commission investigating the causes of the fall of the Boeing 737. Based on the testimony of witnesses and dispatching service of the international airport of Imam Khomeini, the Commission preliminarily believes that the cause of the accident was the ignition of one of engines.
Judging by the video, which appeared on Twitter, the plane after the fall of the exploded and caught fire.
“Now, the work of the rescue team, they extinguish the wreckage of the plane, and then begin the search operation”, – reported in the security service of the airport.
Pictures of what’s left of the Ukrainian plane”s wreckage, nothing much, according to Iranian media it’s very unlikely that anyone survived pic.twitter.com/4p81eRfJRW
— Ali Hashem علي هاشم (@alihashem_tv) 8 Jan 2020
Video from the scene of the crash. Ukrainian 737-800 #PS752 pic.twitter.com/ZakpZX9Zj1
— Air incidents and a photo (@avincidents) 8 Jan 2020
Service Flightradar24 in his Twitter published a Ukrainian flight path of the Boeing-737 that crashed in Iran. According to service, the Board fell shortly after departure. “We are watching the reports that the Ukrainian aircraft 737-800 crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran. Flight PS752 left Tehran at 02:42 am”, – stated in the message.
We are following reports that a Ukrainian 737-800 has crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran. #PS752 departed Tehran at 02:42UTC. Last ADS-B data received at 02:44UTC. https://t.co/qXWHUPGDTu pic.twitter.com/vuAi6TOqTp
— Flightradar24 (@flightradar24) January 8, 2020
The President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky expressed condolences to the families of passengers and crew members of the Ukrainian Boeing, which crashed in Tehran.
“Terrible news from the Middle East. This morning after takeoff from the international airport Imam Khomeini (Tehran) passenger plane of airline “Ukraine International airlines” has suffered accident and has fallen far from the airport”, – stated in the Telegram channel President Zelensky.
On the scene left the Ukrainian Consul.