An air defense operator identified the Ukrainian aircraft as an “enemy target,” Iran said.
Iranian Civil Aviation Organization presented the final report about the crash of a Ukrainian UIA plane in January 2020. The local agency wrote about it. ISNA.
“The 285-page report contains a description of all the information, results, analyzes and expert opinions of 12 expert groups and calls for corrective action on an international scale,” the report said.
As the agency writes Reuters, the cause of the crash in the report is called the error of an air defense operator, who mistook the plane for an “enemy target.”
“The aircraft was identified as an enemy target due to an error by an air defense operator, and two missiles were fired at it,” the report said.
Passenger aircraft Boeing 737-800 of flight PS752 of “Ukraine International Airlines”, which was heading from Tehran to Kiev, crashed on January 8, 2020 near the capital of Iran… Onboard there were 167 passengers and nine crew members. No one survived. Among the dead – 11 citizens of Ukraine. Most of the passengers were citizens of Iran and Canada.
The Iranian authorities, which initially claimed that the plane crashed due to a technical malfunction, on January 11, under pressure from Western leaders, admitted that flight PS752 was shot down by an Iranian missile by mistake.
On July 23, Deputy Foreign Minister Yevgeny Yenin said that the decryption of the data of the black boxes, which was completed in France, confirmed unlawful interference with the operation of a passenger liner.
On August 23, the Civil Aviation Organization of Iran released a series of data received from the on-board voice recorder and flight data recorder of the UIA aircraft. According to the records, the crew knew about the emergency and tried to control the plane to the last.
On February 9, 2021, the Canadian television channel CBC News reported on an audio recording in which a man with a voice similar to that of Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif called “not at all unlikely” a scenario in which the plane could be shot down on purpose… He also said that the truth about the tragedy will not be revealed at the level of the Iranian government and armed forces. Iranian Foreign Ministry Speaker Said Khatibzade denied as authenticity of the recordingand the possibility of deliberate destruction of the aircraft – according to the official version, it was caused by a “catastrophic human error.”
February 20th in Iran announced the completion of the investigation of the disaster. The Iranian prosecutor’s office accuses 10 people of involvement in the crash, among them, according to the military Prosecutor of Tehran Golam-Ali Turki, there are senior military commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. PThere is one person among the guards.
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