Saturday, January 11, 2020

Iran Admits It Accidentally Shot Down Ukrainian Plane



Iranian officials have admitted to accidentally shooting down a Ukraine International Airlines passenger jet on Wednesday, killing all 176 on board. In a statement released Saturday, the government blamed “human error” for its military firing the missiles that destroyed the Boeing 737-800, the Associated Press reported.

The Iranian government had previously maintained that engine failure caused the crash, which occurred shortly after the airliner took off from Imam Khomeini International Airport outside Tehran, bound for Kyiv. Many of the passengers were due to make a connecting flight to Toronto—82 Iranians, 57 Canadians and 11 Ukrainians were among the dead.

3 comments:

  1. yeah, yeah, we know where this is going. Only shot down the plane because they were scared of an attack from the US so it's Trump's fault.

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  2. Was the world safer when the Shah was in Iran?

    And would it be safer today if there was either a western styled democracy, or a Western styled Shah?

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