Section: The New Zealand Herald (New Zealand)
Iran appears to backtrack on plan to send flight recorder to Ukraine
The Iranian official leading the investigation into the Ukrainian jetliner that was accidentally shot down by the Revolutionary Guard appeared to backtrack Sunday on plans to send the flight recorders abroad for analysis, a day after… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Speaker Nancy Pelosi names Schiff and Nadler as prosecutors for Trump trial
Speaker Nancy Pelosi named House prosecutors for President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial on Wednesday ahead of votes to send the charges to the Senate, even as new information about the president’s Ukraine efforts intensified pressure… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Ukraine’s top security official says pilots died instantly when plane was shot out of sky
The pilots aboard the Ukraine International Airlines passenger jet that became a fireball in mid-air and crashed in Iran, killing 176 people, were dead before the plane hit the ground, officials say.The Boeing 737-800 was hit by… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
The theories and contradictions in Ukraine Airlines crash in Iran
An “engine failure” became an “unintentional” missile strike. Here’s how a moment in the Ukranian jet’s flight path baffled so many. At 6.12am local time on Wednesday, January 8 2020, Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 departed… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Wedding party killed on doomed Ukrainian Flight 752
A Canadian wedding party is believed to have been on board the doomed Ukrainian Airlines flight that was carrying 176 people when it crashed in Iran.The Ukraine International Airlines jet was en route to the Ukrainian capital of… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Iran plane crash: Ukraine International Airlines plane crash kills all 176 people on board
Iran’s aviation authority said it would not hand over to Americans the recovered black boxes of a Boeing 737 that crashed on Wednesday, killing all 176 passengers and crew.”We will not give the black boxes to the manufacturer (Boeing)… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
63 Canadians and three Britons among dead in Iran plane crash – report
Ukraine’s foreign minister says that Iranian, Canadian, Ukrainian, Swedish, Afghan, British and German nationals were killed in the Ukrainian plane crash just outside Tehran.Foreign Minister Vadim Prystaiko said after Wednesday’s… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Plane carrying 180 people crashes in Tehran
A plane carrying 180 passengers and crew has crashed near the airport in Tehran, Iranian state TV reports.The plane was a Boeing 737 from the Ukraine, on its way to Boryspil airport in Kiev.Flight 752 reportedly suffered technical… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Trump administration officials froze US$391 million in military aid to Ukraine just 91 minutes after the president spoke with Zelensky
The Trump administration froze aid to Ukraine just 91 minutes after the president got off the phone with Ukraine’s leader and asked for investigations into Joe Biden and the 2016 election, according to newly released emails.”Based… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
Former White House officials say they feared Putin influenced the president’s views on Ukraine, 2016 campaign
Almost from the moment he took office, President Donald Trump seized on a theory that troubled his senior aides: Ukraine, he told them on many occasions, had tried to stop him from winning the White House.After meeting privately… …read more Source:: The New Zealand...
