Seven short days after what was supposed to be the beginning of the rest of their time together, newlyweds Arash Pourzarabi and Pouneh Gorji had their lives cut short on Ukraine International Airlines’ Flight PS752, which crashed in Iran shortly after take-off Wednesday at 6:10 a.m. local time.
The flight carried 176 passengers and was headed to Kyiv, but 78 per cent of those people—138—were flying on to Canada. Twenty-seven called Edmonton home, a disproportionate share for a western Canadian city with a small, close-knit Iranian community—one that is now bearing the brunt of the most deadly aviation disaster for Canadians …read more
Source:: Macleans
