(Tehran) Early this morning Flight PS 752 belonging to Ukrainian Airlines took off from Tehran with 172 passengers and crew, within minutes the Boeing 737 had crashed on the outskirts of the city.
The actual crash was captured on film: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
Iran is claiming this was simply an accident. However it has refused to hand over the two black-boxes retrieved from the crash to Boeing for them to check the crash data, as of yet it is not known whom they will send the blackboxes to. This has lead to rumours that the Iranians are trying to hide something and they have had to issue a denial that they shot down the airliner:Early this morning Ukrainian Airlines flight PS752 from Tehran to Kyiv, crashed shortly after take off from Tehran killing all 176 passengers on board. This video shows the plane on fire as it falls to the grounds#Iran #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/z3kzbi82zH— CNW (@ConflictsW) January 8, 2020
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| Screen dump from Mehr News |
Have a look at that missile head, now compare it with the missile in question:این یک قطعه پیدا شده در محل سقوط هواپیمای مسافربری اوکراینی است که جلوی خونه یکی از ساکنان محل افتاده.— Ashkan Monfared (@AshkanMonfared_) January 8, 2020
هواپیما چیزی شبیه این داره؟ سر موشک نیست؟ pic.twitter.com/4H0ZeUgMNl
It looks like Iran is going to have to answer to a lot of questions especially after pictures of the crashed plane appeared to show damage consistent of an air-burst from an outside explosion such as a proximity fuse of an anti-aircraft missile:
