Ukrainian Boeing Plane Crashes in Iran After Takeoff
A Ukrainian airplane carrying 180 passengers and crew crashed Wednesday near an airport in the capital, Tehran.
According to the report of CNN, a Ukrainian airliner burst into flames shortly after take-off from Tehran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people aboard in a crash that an initial Iranian report blamed on engine failure.
The plane had taken off from Imam Khomeini International Airport, the report said. The crash is suspected to have been caused by mechanical issues, it added, without elaborating.
Ukraine’s prime minister and Iranian state TV said 167 passengers and nine crew were on board. Iranian TV said 32 of those on board were foreigners.
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said the victims included 82 from Iran, 63 Canadians, 11 Ukrainians, 10 Swedes, three Germans, and three Britons. Most passengers were in transit, the airline said.
An investigation team was at the site of the crash in southwestern outskirts of Tehran, civil aviation spokesman Reza Jafarzadeh said. Iranian authorities said they recovered the flight data recorders, commonly known as black boxes.
“We will not give the black box to the manufacturer [Boeing] or America,” Abedzadeh told the Mehr news agency, in accordance with international rules, CNN reported. No pronouncement would be made regarding the cause of the crash, the official added, until the black boxes were analyzed.
The report came a few hours after Iran launched over a dozen ballistic missiles against U.S. military and coalition forces in Iraq and the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority issued an emergency restriction for Gulf airspace.
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