In Iran crashed passenger plane in Ukrainian, all 177 people on Board were killed. The tragedy occurred Wednesday morning, January 8.
According to Iranian edition of PressTV, the Iran rescuers are working at the place where the crashed Ukrainian plane. It crashed shortly after takeoff from the international airport to the South of the Iranian capital Tehran, killing all who were on Board.
Ali Hachani, a senior in public relations at the international airport of Imam Khomeini, said that the Boeing 737, which manages the airline «Ukraine International Airlines» (UIA), which went to Kiev, took off at 06:12 am in the center of the Parade (city in Robat Karim near Tehran). For unclear reasons, the plane crashed after 8 minutes of flight, and immediately after the crash caught fire. The black box has been found and handed over to law enforcement.
According to Hachani, the accident most likely occurred due to technical problems. The Boeing 737 was in operation from 2016. Recent maintenance Board held on 6 January 2020.
Representatives of the Iranian authorities have already declared that the cause of the accident was a fire in the engine compartment. They deny the version that the plane could shoot down the Iranian missile defenses. They explain their certainty that the plane was on fire already on the ground, and in the case of impact of the missile it was on fire still in the sky and, most likely, would disintegrate into pieces in the air.
Later Hachani declared that all «160 passengers and 9 crew members of the plane died in the crash». At the same time, Iranian state television reports that aboard a Ukrainian passenger plane was no less than 180 persons. The exact number of victims specified.
According to the latest data — on Board flight PS 752 Tehran-Kiev was 168 passengers and 9 crew members, that is, only 177 people. The plane was supposed to arrive at the airport «Borispol» (Kiev) at 8:10 am 8 Jan.
Rescue teams were sent to the crash site immediately after the accident. The head of emergency medical services of Iran PIR Hossein Coliand later confirmed to the news Agency tasnim that all aboard were killed. The body was badly damaged, so may have difficulties with their identification. Most of the passengers, according to preliminary data, citizens of Iran. Lists of victims are specified.
According to preliminary data on Board the crashed ship were:
- 11 crew members from Ukraine;
- 2 Ukrainian;
- 71 Iranian;
- 73 canadian;
- 4 German;
- 3 the Englishman.
Coliand also said that the fire was extinguished and emergency crews busy in collecting dead bodies. On a scene of profit of 22 ambulances and 2 bus. The area in which work is done, takes 2 hectares.
#Ukrainian plane with 180 people aboard crashes after take-off from #Tehran intl. airport https://t.co/F3q1YyB28s #PlaneCrash #Iran #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/6G4G884ElD
— Press TV (@PressTV) January 8, 2020
From words to deeds
After the assassination of General Soleimani, Iran vowed to take revenge on US for his death. The statement was made that for these purposes is already selected 35 important to America’s strategic goals, which are in direct access for Iranian armed forces.
In response, Donald trump said that America, too, has already selected 52 Iranian targets (the number 52 American hostages held by Iran many years ago), some of which are very important for Iran and Iranian culture.
….hundreds of Iranian protesters. He was already attacking our Embassy, and preparing for additional hits in other locations. Iran has been nothing but problems for many years. Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 4, 2020
January 6, Hassan Rohani, President of Iran, in turn, made the following tweet:
Those who refer to the number 52 should also remember the number 290. #IR655
Never threaten the Iranian nation.
— Hassan Rouhani (@HassanRouhani) January 6, 2020
This message is a reference to the tragedy that occurred in the Persian Gulf in 1988, when the U.S. Navy shot down a missile defense Iranian civilian aircraft. As a result of the tragedy killed 290 civilian Iranians.
On the night of 8 January, Iranian armed forces attacked from the territory of Iran 2 Iraqi military facilities, deployed troops U.S. air base al-Asad base in the area of Erbil city. After a few hours crashed Ukrainian Boeing 737 during takeoff from the airport in Tehran.
American power prudently closed the skies over Iran for its civilian flights. Iran itself, its airspace was not closed at that time. Now flights over the region suspended.
This coincidence has spawned many variants of the reasons of falling of the liner, not the least of which is the version of ballistic missiles. The government of Iran of its involvement in the incident deny. The preliminary version of the causes of the crash — the plane’s engine caught fire.
