8 January 2020 early in the morning Ukrainian plane with 177 passengers was wrecked near the international airport of Imam Khomeini in Tehran. According to PressTV, the Iranian Director of civil aviation denies «illogical rumors» that the airliner was shot down by missiles.
The Minister of civil aviation of Iran Ali Abedzadeh in an interview with Press TV on Thursday, said: «From a scientific point of view it is impossible that a rocket hit a Ukrainian plane».
«The plane caught fire three minutes after take-off, in accordance with what reported by witnesses, and information obtained during the inspection of airplane parts,» said Abedzadeh.
Ali Abedzadeh, Iranian Civil Aviation minister: “The plane was at an attitude of 8,000 feet. No missile can reach that height.”
8,000 feet make 2,440 km.
Surface-to-air missile can fly twice as high.
IGNORANCE. pic.twitter.com/KtlKWsoOFa
— Fuat (@lilygrutcher) January 9, 2020
«The pilot tried to turn the plane at an altitude of 8000 feet (2440 km), but because of the fire the plane crashed and exploded. — he added — we Can say that the aircraft, given the type of crash and the attempts of the pilot to return it to the airport of Imam Khomeini, did not explode in the air. Thus, the assertion that he was hit by a missile, is completely excluded».
Interestingly, while Ali Abedzadeh said on state television: «If we can prove that the cause of the crash was technical, then Boeing shares fall sharply in price.»
Ali Abedzadeh, #Iran»s aviation chief said tonight on the state tv: “If we can prove that the cause of #UkrainianPlaneCrash was technical then @Boeing»s stocks will plummet really bad” — It appears that Iranian aviation officials are less definitive about the cause of the crash. pic.twitter.com/cSNpjrflB7
— Hossein Ghazanfari (@TehranDC) January 10, 2020
Answering the question of whether the cause of the accident, Abedzadeh said: «According to international rules, the responsibility for the investigation lies with the country where the incident occurred. So, it falls to the civil aviation Organization of Iran.»
«But since the plane was Ukrainian, Ukraine is obliged to cooperate with us and have already begun to work. A team of Ukrainian experts has arrived in Tehran and we agreed with them the various aspects of this issue. Iranian and Ukrainian experts held a meeting, so we can determine the cause of the incident in cooperation with the Ukrainian side».
His interview he gave after American officials stated that Ukrainian passenger plane likely was shot down by anti-aircraft missiles.
Before that, on Thursday, the Minister of road and urban development of Iran Mohammad Eslami also made a refutation of the idea that the Downing of the Ukrainian airliner on Wednesday due to a rocket attack. He said that the plane Boeing 737-800 crashed due to technical failure. Eslami also said that Iran will not give the black boxes found at the scene of the crash, Boeing or other countries.
Ukraine Boeing Crash 1-8-20 (FNA)- Iranian Minister of Transportation Mohammad Eslami said on Wednesday, he ordered Accidents Commission in the country’s Civil Aviation Organization to probe into the cause of the early morning Boeing 737 plane crash in SW of Tehran province. P1 pic.twitter.com/SoZxJNnUvG
— Aida Viggiano (@AidaViggiano) January 9, 2020
Airliner «Ukraine International Airlines», EN route to Kyiv, carrying mainly Iranians and Iranian-Canadians, crashed after just a few hours after Iran fired missiles on the bases, which housed American troops in Iraq, which led many to believe that the plane could be shot down.
Meanwhile, on the Telegram there is a new unconfirmed video claims that this is the moment when the flight 752 Ukrainian international airlines was hit by a missile early on Wednesday morning, January 8, near Tehran.
#BREAKING
New, unconfirmed video on Telegram claiming to show the moment when Ukrainian Int’l Airlines flight #PS752 was shot down early Wednesday morning, January 8, over a town west of the Iranian capital of Tehran. pic.twitter.com/FNtq5P7zpj
— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) January 9, 2020
