No survivors in Ukraine International Airlines crash in Iran

Posted on 8 January 2020

A Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) plane with 176 passengers and crew crashed near Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport in the early hours of Wednesday morning, 8 January 2020. The airliner was en route to Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv.

According to Qatari-based international broadcaster Al Jazeera, all those on board were killed. The Boeing 737-800 jet crashed shortly after takeoff in Parand, an area southwest of Iran’s capital Tehran.

The plane was originally supposed to take off at 5:15 am from Tehran to Kyiv but was delayed by almost an hour. Iran’s ISNA news agency posted a video to Twitter showing a faint light flickering in the air before a huge fireball appeared.

Photos have emerged online of the wreckage, scattered all over the ground. A spokesman of the Iranian Aviation Organisation, Reza Jafarzadeh, said to local media: ‘An investigation team from the national aviation department was dispatched to the location after the news was announced. We will give more reports in upcoming bulletins.’

 

 

Also read: Travel warnings issued for Turkey and Dubai

Image: Twitter






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