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Ukrainian passenger plane with 180 people on board crashes in Iran Ukrainian passenger plane with at least 170 on board crashes in Iran, no survivors
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ISTANBUL — A Ukrainian passenger jet with 180 people on board crashed in Iran early Wednesday shortly after takeoff from the Imam Khomeini International Airport in capital Tehran, an airport official said. ISTANBUL — A Ukrainian passenger jet with at least 170 people on board crashed in Iran early Wednesday shortly after takeoff from the Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran, killing all aboard, an airport official said.
The Boeing 737 aircraft likely crashed due to technical difficulties, state media quoted Ali Khahshani, a senior public relations official at the airport, as saying. The Boeing 737 aircraft likely crashed due to technical difficulties, state media quoted Ali Kahshani, a senior public relations official at the airport, as saying. Kahshani told IRNA, the state news agency, that 167 passengers and nine crew died in the crash and that rescuers were collecting bodies.
The flight from Ukraine International Airlines was bound for the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The flight operated by Ukraine International Airlines was bound for the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv.
A spokesman for Iran’s emergency services, Mojtaba Khaledi, said that ambulances were dispatched to the crash site south of Tehran. “No has survived the crash of the Ukrainian airlines plane and we are collecting the bodies,” Pirhossein Koulivand, the country’s chief of emergency services, said to the state television broadcaster. “All emergency and rescue forces are present at the scene.”
Boeing said on Twitter that it was “aware of the media reports out of Iran and we are gathering more information,” Boeing said on Twitter.
Though the Boeing 737-800, the aircraft involved in Wednesday’s crash, hasn’t been flagged for issues, the 737 Max was grounded worldwide nearly 10 months ago after the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines flight on March 10. It was the second fatal crash of a 737 Max in less than five months. In October 2018, a Lion Air flight crashed off the coast of Indonesia, killing all aboard.
The company’s crisis resulted in the firing of CEO Dennis Muilenburg just two weeks ago.
The crash coincided with Iranian forces launching more than a dozen ballistic missiles against two military bases in Iraq, which houses some American troops, Wednesday morning in the aftermath of the U.S.’s decision to kill Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force. It’s unclear if the events are related, but American passenger airliners have been banned from flying over Iran because of the risk that they could be mistaken as military aircraft.
Khurshudyan reported from Moscow. Paul Schemm in Dubai contributed to this report.
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