Ukrainian Airlines Boeing 737 with 170 aboard crashes in Tehran hours after Iran's attack on US bases... - Boeing 737.jpg

....- sparking speculation it has been accidentally shot down as video shows
plane in flames BEFORE hitting ground

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*Ukrainian International Airlines flight PS752 carrying 170 people crashed near
Tehran Wednesday morning

•All on board the plane heading for Kiev died according to state media

•The airliner, said to be a Boeing 737, went down around Parand 60 kilometres
south-west of the Iranian city

•Imam Khomeini International Airport, told Fars News Agency the plane suffered
technical problems

•However, flight data shows the three-year-old Boeing 737-800 reached an
altitude of 2.4 km and then suddenly disappeared three minutes after take-off in
Tehran

•Video appeared to show the first footage of a Ukrainian plane on fire before
falling into a farm field

•The head of Iran's emergency services initially said they may be able to save a
few on board but later said the fire was too heavy and could do no rescue

•The crash came hours after Iran launched a ballistic missile attack targeting
two bases in Iraq housing U.S. forces, in retaliation for the killing of
Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani

A Ukrainian passenger plane bound for Kiev appeared to already be in flames
before it fell from the sky and into a farm field outside of Tehran on
Wednesday, sparking speculation it was shot down before killing all 170
passengers on board.

Ukrainian International Airlines flight PS752 crashed near just three minutes
after takeoff from Tehran and Ali Kashani, a spokesman for Imam Khomeini
International Airport, told Fars news agency: 'It is predicted that technical
problems caused the accident.'

However, flight data shows the three-year-old Boeing 737-800 for Ukrainian
International Airlines flight PS752 reached an altitude of 2.4 km and then
suddenly disappeared.

The plane 'crashed around Parand', about 60 kilometres south-west of the Iranian
city and all on board dead according to state media.

Unverified video footage tweeted by the BBC's Iran correspondent, Ali Hashem,
appeared to show the plane burning in the sky before crashing in a huge
explosion.

A photo later published by Iran's state-run IRNA news agency showed rescue
officials in a farm field, with what appeared to be pieces of the aircraft
laying nearby. IRNA had estimated 180 on board.

Flight information shows the plane taking off at 2.44am UTC (6.14am local time)
and reaching a height of 7,925ft before the data abruptly ends.

An investigation team was at the site of the crash in southwestern outskirts of
Tehran, Iran's civil aviation spokesman Reza Jafarzadeh told the Associated
Press.

'After taking off from Imam Khomeini international airport it crashed between
Parand and Shahriar,' Jafarzadeh said. 'An investigation team from the national
aviation department was dispatched to the location after the news was
announced.'

Images from the scene Wednesday morning indicated that it was unlikely anyone
survived.

There was not much of the aircraft left in tact amid the wreckage in the field
where the plane crashed.

'The plane is on fire but we have sent crews ... and we may be able to save some
passengers,' Pirhossein Koulivand, head of Iran's emergency services, told State
TV.

He later said: 'The fire is so heavy that we cannot (do) any rescue... we have
22 ambulances, four bus ambulances and a helicopter at the site.'




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