Iran claims Boeing crash that claimed 177 lives hours after missile attack on US base was caused by engine fire but REFUSES to hand over jet’s black box

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82 Iranians, 63 Canadians and three Britons died on flight PS752.

Iran claims Boeing crash that claimed 177 lives hours after missile attack on US base was caused by engine fire but REFUSES to hand over jet’s black box

  • The Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737 jet came down three minutes after take-off from Tehran today
  • President Volodymyr Zelensky said there were no survivors among the 168 passengers and nine crew
  • Ukraine’s foreign ministry revealed there were 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians and three Britons on flight PS752
  • Iran said the engine had caught fire and video appeared to show the plane already on fire as it fell from the sky
  • Ukrainian embassy in Iran initially said the crash had been caused by an engine failure but retracted the claim
  • The plane was less than four years old and had been checked just two days earlier, the Ukrainian airline said

It crashed hours after Iran attacked US bases in Iraq in retaliation for the killing of Qassem Soleimani

By Rod Ardehali and Tim Stickings and Martin Robinson, Chief Reporter and Will Stewart for MailOnline and Leah Simpson For Dailymail.com, 8 January 2020

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Iran has blamed technical failure and an engine fire for a plane crash which killed 177 people near Tehran today, but is refusing to hand over the recovered black boxes to Boeing or the US.

The Boeing 737 jet came down just minutes after take-off from Imam Khomeini International Airport early this morning, hours after Iran launched missile strikes on US bases in Iraq in revenge for Qassem Solemani’s death.

Three Britons and 63 Canadians were among the 168 passengers and nine crew on board the Ukrainian International Airlines flight to Kyiv. There were no survivors.

Iran is blaming ‘technical difficulties’ and says the pilot lost control after a fire struck one of the plane’s engines, but said the crew had not reported an emergency and is refusing to say what will happen to the black boxes.

Video footage appeared to show the plane already burning in the night sky before it crashed, while pictures at the crash site showed the fuselage peppered with holes.

The Ukrainian embassy in Tehran initially stated that the crash had been caused by an engine failure rather than terrorism or a missile attack, but later rescinded that claim.

The Boeing plane was less than four years old and had been checked just two days earlier, with ‘one of our best crews’ manning the aircraft, a Ukrainian airline official said.

The disaster deals a further blow to Boeing which was thrown into crisis by two plane crashes in October 2018 and March 2019 which killed a combined 346 people.

French jet engine manufacturer CFM said any speculation about a technical failure was ‘premature’.

The crash sparked fresh alarm in the already tense Middle East and a series of airlines have announced they will stop flying over Iranian airspace.

The Ukrainian foreign ministry revealed there were 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians and three Britons on flight PS752, along with 11 Ukrainians, 10 Swedes, four Afghans and four Germans.

The three British victims were later named as businessman Mohammad Reza Kadkhoda-Zadeh, 40, and engineers Saeed Tahmasebi Khademsadi, 35, and Sam Zokaei, 42.

Canada is home to a large Iranian diaspora community and UIA offers discount flights between Tehran and Toronto, with a transit in Kiev.

People stand near the wreckage after a Ukrainian plane carrying 177 passengers crashed near Imam Khomeini airport

Pieces of debris are seen lying at the crash site in a picture released by an Iranian news agency today, showing what appeared to be holes in the fuselage of the Boeing aircraft

Rescue workers in protective suits gather up the bodies of passengers who were killed in the Boeing 737 crash in Iran today

The black boxes (pictured) from the Ukrainian airliner were found today but Iran says it will not hand them over to Boeing

 

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Tazz2293ski
Tazz2293ski
4 years ago

Engines tend to catch on fire when hit with shrapnel and fuel lines are pierced

Tin Man 2
Tin Man 2
4 years ago

Right after it happened, the Iranians said it was “mechanical failure,” when there was no way to know that so soon. Then a video emerged showing the aircraft engulfed in flames while still aloft, so the Iranians changed their story to “an engine fire.” Why didn’t the very experienced pilot declare a “mayday?” And what possible reason could the Mullahs have for withholding flight recorder information from Boeing, the aircraft’s designer and builder?

mfrench
mfrench
4 years ago

Shot down by an Iranian missle. People are trying to leave Iran and look what happens to them. That regime is ruthless!! They are murderers!!

oceanfloor1
oceanfloor1
4 years ago
Reply to  mfrench

Filthy fanatic whores of Allah don’t care what they do to any “infidel”. Should be interesting to hear how Shiny Pony Tru-dope rationalizes this one.

Tin Man  2
Tin Man 2
4 years ago

It’s scant consolation, but the aircraft was already traveling at over 300 miles per hour, so the flight’s victims likely didn’t suffer. When TWA flight 800 had a similar ending off the south shore of Long Island, the medical examiner commented that

“The plane was going at 400 mph, it suddenly changes direction, the fuselage is open so all this air and pressure is going into the cabin, and there’s a sudden decompression,″ Wetli said. “All of this combined would render almost everyone instantly unconscious.″ He likened it to a car smashing into a brick wall at 400 mph. “It’s an extremely violent whiplash, a separation of the skull from the spinal cord, an instant loss of consciousness.”

Dem-Smasher
Dem-Smasher
4 years ago
Reply to  Tin Man 2

The victims also include the family members of the dead and will be suffering for the rest of their lives.

Smurt52
Smurt52
4 years ago

More likely it’s from anti missle / aircraft fire.

Dan Knight
Dan Knight
4 years ago

They don’t want to hand over the black boxes b/c they know it’s likely to be a ‘friendly-fire’ downing.

Some Iranian dipstick probably shot the plane down, and they don’t want anyone to prove it.

Even if that’s not the case, they know it’s probably true; so they’re being tight lipped.

AlgorithmicAnalyst
AlgorithmicAnalyst
4 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Yeah, that’s what I thought also.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago
Reply to  Dan Knight

Dan, there are now photos of the back of the plane on fire where it had been hit by something…..let’s see them cover that up….

Rollin Shultz
Rollin Shultz
4 years ago

Well statistically it’s only the fourth 737-800 to fall from the sky since 2010 one of which was in 2016, so recently.
There are two players who would like to blame Iran.
1. Boeing, who keeps losing stock values.
2. Pompeo and his other Pentagon cronies.

If I was Iranian leadership, I would keep the black box until arrangements could be made to play it publicly so there are no shenanigans.

Paul Rivers
Paul Rivers
4 years ago
Reply to  Rollin Shultz

Wow. Paranoid much? There’s no way we’ll ever hear anything from the black box. Ever.

This was NOT Pompeo or the Pentagon. Just give up that blatant idiocy.

Rollin Shultz
Rollin Shultz
4 years ago
Reply to  Paul Rivers

Paranoid? Remember 9/11? The indestructible black boxes never recovered, except some witnesses saw them and died soon after speaking. Yet terrorist passports miraculously found near the scene, but them, you are probably a “Johnny come lately” that knows all.

Btw learn to read. I didn’t say Pompeo or the Pentagon downed the plane, they have know faulty engines. I said Pompeo and the Pentagon would love to blame it on Iran so they can have more war, or don’t you recognize them as neocons and war mongers.

Paul Rivers
Paul Rivers
4 years ago
Reply to  Rollin Shultz

Yes. You’re paranoid. Got it.

As for the “Johnny come lately” idiocy, I’m 50. I watched the towers fall that day and I’ve read all the conspiracy talk. It’s just that. Talk. This was Iran, not the US. Why else would Tehran hold the black boxes? Are you serious? I mean really. It’s a pretty sick idea to try to blame the US for a clear act from Iran.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago
Reply to  Paul Rivers

…it is obviously a paid troll….Surorrooss had thousands of them on his payroll.
In the spring of 2016 there was a news story that Hillary and Surosss hired 800 trolls to to troll against Trump and conservatives….mostly based in Canada…..and we can look for there to be even more in the next election.
And you can’t just block them anymore because many of them are computer bots….not even real people.

I want to know why he hasn’t been arrested and hung for Sedition? He has a dual citizenship between America and Hungary since approximately 1961. Orban has kicked his NGOs out of Hungary…and he is banned from four countries (UK being one of them) for manipulating their money.

We hung the Rosenbergs for far less…..

Paul Rivers
Paul Rivers
4 years ago
Reply to  ladywarrior

He has billions, including the $19 billion he got from his oil scheme thanks to Obama.

He spent $2 million lobbying the Obama administration to block oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico to idle drills there. Because they were idled and needed to make money, he leased all of them and had them moved to Brazil and Venezuela and made approximately $19 billion for his $2 million investment. Hurt thousands of Americans. Turned around and dumped $19 billion into his foundations to overthrow the US. Most politicians on the left are bought and paid for by him or his foundations. He’s literally the number 1 enemy of America. And he has dual citizenship with US and Hungary. He’s wanted, dead or alive in Russia. He’s wanted in 12 other countries. He’s careful and rich as heck and won’t get caught.

He should have an arrest on sight order for entering the US as well as his demon spawn sons.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago
Reply to  Paul Rivers

He’s banded in the UK because he short sold their currency and crashed the Bank of England. There are 3 or four other countries he’s not allowed in….
And yet he sits up there in New York in his penthouse having parties and gatherings with the other criminal elite. I posted more above.

He and Killary conspired to organize a Coup against President Trump….and the US voters….yet neither one of them are in prison.

patd
patd
4 years ago
Reply to  Rollin Shultz

You really are one of those ignorant libturd parasitic feral animal trolls that continue to spew your BS and lies and actually believe someone will take your ignorant ass seriously. STFU moron and and stay in your breeder’s basement where you belong!

Goldenrudy
Goldenrudy
4 years ago

Why anyone would travel to Iran, for any reason, is a bad decision. Things are going to get worse. Keep in mind today’s Iran is the work, the product, of Pres Jimmy Carter and the Democrats in 1978. Lest We Ever Forget!

Dem-Smasher
Dem-Smasher
4 years ago

Take the black box from their cold dead hands!

Scooter Van Neuter
Scooter Van Neuter
4 years ago

Few things are more self-evident than the unequivocal fact that the godless, feckless, Iranian retards inadvertently shot down this commercial airliner.

oceanfloor1
oceanfloor1
4 years ago

They have a god. “He” orders them to kill “infidels”. But of course you believers of all kinds have to blame everything on the “godless” no matter whose evil religion inspired it.

J.E.Walker
J.E.Walker
4 years ago

Opps!!! Iran shot down a “friendly” plane while on high alert for US war planes responding to their missiles.

Paul Rivers
Paul Rivers
4 years ago

The big question is, how many survived until the military arrived?

patd
patd
4 years ago

Not hard to believe as ALL muslims lie as they are all ignorant moronic feral animal yard ape goat rapers!!!!!

Hoppla
Hoppla
4 years ago
Reply to  patd

Are you saying our politicians in Washington and the White House are all Muslims and goat rapists ???

patd
patd
4 years ago
Reply to  Hoppla

Most in the Houses but since the POS anti-American muslim isn’t occupying our WH we are getting results. Seems as if having an American back in our WH looking out for Americans and America may bother you a bit. Don’t worry his next 4 years will be much better for America and Americans!

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago
Reply to  patd

Dr. Michael Yousseff said in his book “JESUS, JIHAD, AND PEACE” that of the millions of muslims on earth…..85% of them are illiterate. And they have to depend on their Imam to tell them what the Qu’ran says…..which means they can make up anything they want to rile them up.
Yousseff’s book is very, very revealing….especially when he talks about how the US banks work with the Muslims and pay them “tithes” just for doing business with them. I found my copy on Amazon.

1PierreMontagne1
1PierreMontagne1
4 years ago

IN order to avenge Soleimami’s death the Iranians trampled to death 56 Iranian mourners who were at the funeral, then they shot down an Ukrainian Passenger Jet leaving Tehran whose passengers had not attended the funeral. To Iranians vengeance is sweet no matter who they murder. It’s the Persian way.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago

…..and Ukraine is now very friendly with President Trump and helping to stop corruption….of which Iran has been a part of…

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago

….uhhh….I’m not so sure it is the Persian way…..before the hard Muslims took over I think they were pretty productive, innovative, and peaceful until the British stirred them up….though I could be wrong.

wpjokari
wpjokari
4 years ago

aviation expert on lars show said what he was seeing in ‘the video’ was a result of an incendiary device, the conflagration could not have started by any system failure on the aircraft.

Roma Mikhasev
Roma Mikhasev
4 years ago

Iran can only shoot down passenger planes.

ladywarrior
ladywarrior
4 years ago

It’s going to be very hard for them to sell that now that photos from someone on the ground that the plane had been hit and was on fire long before it crashed…..but I’m sure the “investigation” will take years and years….until people no longer remember….

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