Many questions are still left unanswered the day after a Ukrainian passenger plane crashed and burst into flames shortly after take-off from Tehran early on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board.
This occurred just following Iran launching missile strikes at a pair of U.S. military bases in Iraq. Iranian state TV said the Boeing 737-800 crashed because of an engine fire due to a technical fault, but that has not been confirmed.
That doomed flight fell near its point of departure from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport. The airliner had been destined for Kiev, Ukraine.
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Senior broadcast journalist on BBC News Hour Rozita Riazati took to Twitter and wrote: “Reuters reporting #Iran will not give the black box of the crashed Ukrainian airliner to Boeing – says the head of Tehran’s civil aviation organisation. Ali Abedzadeh also said it was not clear which country Iran would send the box to so that its data could be analysed. (Mehr)”
Reuters reporting #Iran will not give the black box of
the crashed Ukrainian airliner to Boeing – says the head of Tehran's civil aviation organisation. Ali Abedzadeh also said it was not clear which country Iran would send the box to so that its data could be analysed. (Mehr)— Rozita Riazati (@RozitaRiazati) January 8, 2020
She then retweeted a post from Balman Kalbasi (BBC: Persian Service. Iran, US politics) which read “This story is becoming very disturbing very fast. #Ukraine embassy in Tehran pulled down this statement.”
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As he quoted a passage from that statement saying, “According to preliminary information the plane crashed as a result of a technical failure of the engine. The possibility of a terrorist attack or missile strike are currently ruled out.”
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