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Ukraine International Airlines flight 752
Rescue teams work amidst debris after a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 passengers crashed near Imam Khomeini airport in the Iranian capital Tehran early in the morning on January 8, 2020, killing everyone on board. (AFP)
August 23, 2020, 1:55 pm
19 seconds after Iran missile hit, cockpit chatter on Ukraine plane went silent
Tehran retrieves some data from black boxes from jetliner accidentally downed by the IRGC in January, killing all 176 on board
By Nasser Karimi
Rescue teams recover a body after a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 passengers crashed near Imam Khomeini airport in the Iranian capital Tehran on January 8, 2020, killing everyone on board. (AFP)
July 18, 2020, 5:36 pm
Iran sends downed Ukrainian plane’s black box to France
Tehran has been in intense negotiations with countries that had citizens aboard plane, and which have demanded a thorough investigation
By AP
Flowers and candles are placed in front of portraits of the flight crew members of the Ukrainian 737-800 plane that crashed on the outskirts of Tehran, at a memorial inside Borispil international airport outside Kyiv, Ukraine, January 11, 2020. (Efrem Lukatsky/AP)
July 12, 2020, 1:22 pm
Iran says misaligned missile battery led to downing of Ukrainian passenger jet
Iranian Civil Aviation Organization blames shootdown of Flight 752 on bad communication, notes air defense operator fired missiles at plane without authority from superiors
By Amir Vahdat and Jon Gambrell
Debris is seen from the crashed Ukrainian as authorities work at the scene in Shahedshahr, southwest of Tehran, Iran, on January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi)
July 2, 2020, 7:05 pm
Iran agrees to compensate downed plane victims’ families, Sweden says
Ukrainian aircraft was struck by two missiles and crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran airport on January 8, killing all 176 people on board
By AFP
Rescue teams work amidst debris after a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 passengers crashed near Imam Khomeini airport in the Iranian capital Tehran early in the morning on January 8, 2020, killing everyone on board. (AFP)
June 22, 2020, 7:41 pm
Iran says it will send downed Ukraine airliner’s black boxes to France soon
Zarif says ready to resolve legal issues and discuss compensation for families of victims on Flight 752, hit by two Iranian missiles
By AFP
People and rescue teams amid bodies and debris after a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 passengers that was accidentally shot down by Iranian forces near Imam Khomeini airport in the Iranian capital Tehran, January 8, 2020. (Rouhollah Vahdati/ISNA/AFP)
June 16, 2020, 11:56 pm
Iran to send Ukraine plane’s black boxes to France ‘soon,’ says Canada PM
Islamic Republic has said pandemic holding up handover of evidence; Tehran says it accidentally shot down airliner in January, killing 176 on board
By AFP
Rescue workers search the scene where a Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr, southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran, January 8, 2020. (AP Photo/ Ebrahim Noroozi)
June 15, 2020, 7:23 pm
Iran says pandemic delaying reading of black boxes from Ukraine flight
Government spokesman claims Tehran has ‘nothing on our side to hide’ about accidental shooting down of passenger plane
By AFP
Rescue teams work amid debris after a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 passengers crashed near Imam Khomeini airport in the Iranian capital Tehran early in the morning on January 8, 2020, killing everyone on board. (AFP)
June 13, 2020, 4:06 am
Iran asks France to analyze Ukraine flight black boxes, probe officials say
Accident agency denies it has been contacted, but says it is ‘ready to look at any request’; Canada has urged Tehran to hand over black boxes to Ukraine or France for analysis
By AFP
People and rescue teams amid bodies and debris after a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 passengers crashed near Imam Khomeini airport in the Iranian capital Tehran, killing everyone on board, January 8, 2020. (Rouhollah Vahdati/ISNA/AFP)
February 19, 2020, 1:28 pm
Iran: Flight recorder of downed Ukrainian jetliner ‘considerably damaged’
Maintaining refusal to hand over black box device, Iranian defense minister says his country will repair it and then attempt to read information stored on it
By TOI staff
In this January 8, 2020, file photo a rescue worker searches the scene where a Ukrainian plane crashed in Shahedshahr southwest of the capital Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Noroozi, File)
January 27, 2020, 11:42 am
Downing of Ukrainian jet in Iran reveals Islamic Republic’s wider woes
Tehran faces a paramilitary Guard that keeps its own government in the dark, a supreme leader above oversight or reproach, and mounting economic troubles and popular fury
By Jon Gambrell
Scene after an Iranian passenger airliner carrying some 150 passengers skidded off the runway and into a street next to the airport in the southern city of Mahshahr, January 27, 2020 (Screen capture: Twitter)
January 27, 2020, 11:16 am
Iranian plane skids off runway into street; all 150 passengers safe
State TV says airliner came in harder than usual in Mahshahr and lost its landing gear as it hit the tarmac; images from scene show jet ground to a halt close to populated area
By AP
Rescue workers carry the body of a victim of a Ukrainian plane crash in Shahedshahr, southwest of Tehran, Iran, January 8, 2020 (AP/Ebrahim Noroozi)
January 21, 2020, 10:30 am
Iran confirms it fired two missiles at downed Ukraine airliner
Tehran’s civil aviation authority says it has yet to receive a positive response after requesting assistance from France and the US in decoding black boxes
By AFP
Iranian police officers take position while protesters gather in front of Amir Kabir University in Tehran, Iran, January 11, 2020.(AP Photo)
January 20, 2020, 4:25 pm
Iranian stars bolster downed jet protests amid spate of high-profile defections
Among those openly criticizing regime are actors vowing to boycott a film festival, a famed volleyball player and a former state TV presenter who apologized for ’13 years of lying’
By AFP
Honor guards carry a coffin of one of the eleven Ukrainian victims of the Ukrainian 737-800 plane that was shot down in error by Iran on the outskirts of Tehran, during a memorial ceremony at Borispil international airport outside Kyiv, Ukraine, January 19, 2020. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
January 19, 2020, 2:44 pm
Bodies of 11 Ukrainian plane victims repatriated from Iran
President Volodymyr Zelensky attends honor guard for Ukraine International Airlines flight crew and 2 passengers shot down January 8 by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard
By AFP
Flowers and candles are placed in front of portraits of the flight crew members of the Ukrainian 737-800 plane that crashed on the outskirts of Tehran, at a memorial inside Borispil international airport outside Kyiv, Ukraine, January 11, 2020. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
January 19, 2020, 1:49 pm
Iran backtracks on plan to send flight recorders to Ukraine
Official says Iran working to recover data, cabin recordings; Tehran may be hesitant to turn over black boxes that could reveal more details of its downing of Ukrainian airliner
By AP
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