{"id":95035,"date":"2020-01-08T11:50:17","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T15:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/?p=95035"},"modified":"2020-01-08T11:50:17","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T15:50:17","slug":"iran-ukrainian-airplane-crashes-near-irans-capital-killing-176","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antiguanewsroom.com\/iran-ukrainian-airplane-crashes-near-irans-capital-killing-176\/","title":{"rendered":"IRAN: Ukrainian Airplane Crashes Near Iran\u2019s Capital, Killing 176"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Ukrainian passenger jet carrying 176 people crashed on Wednesday, just minutes after taking off from the Iranian capital\u2019s main airport, turning farmland on the outskirts of Tehran into fields of flaming debris and killing all on board.<\/p>

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The crash of Ukraine International Airlines came hours after\u00a0Iran launched a ballistic missile attack on Iraqi bases housing US soldiers, but Iranian officials said they suspected a mechanical issue brought down the 3\u00bd-year-old Boeing 737-800 aircraft.<\/p>\n

Ukrainian officials initially agreed, but later backed away and declined to offer a cause while the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>

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The plane carried 167 passengers and nine crew members from different nations.<\/p>

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Ukraine\u2019s foreign minister, Vadym Prystaiko, said that there were 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians and 11 Ukrainians on board \u2014 the Ukrainian nationals included two passengers and the nine crew.<\/p>\n

There were also 10 Swedish, four Afghan, three German and three British nationals, he said.<\/p>

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Airline officials said most of the passengers were en route to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, transiting through there to other destinations.<\/p>\n

Staff at the Boryspil airport in Kyiv, told The Associated Press that passengers on this flight are usually Iranian students coming back to Ukraine after winter holidays.<\/p>

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Ukraine\u2019s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy extended his condolences to the families of the victims.<\/p>

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His office said he had cut his visit to Oman short and was returning to Kyiv because of the crash. The country\u2019s Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk confirmed the casualty toll.<\/p>\n

The plane had been delayed from taking off from Imam Khomeini International Airport by almost an hour.<\/p>\n

It took off to the west, but never made it above 8,000 feet in the air, according to data from the flight-tracking website FlightRadar24.<\/p>\n

It remains unclear what happened.<\/p>\n

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