KYIV, Ukraine—A Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed Wednesday morning only minutes after takeoff from Tehran and only hours after Iran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles at U.S. forces based in neighboring Iraq.
Data from Flightradar24, a website that tracks aircraft, indicates the Ukrainian airliner crashed roughly two minutes after taking off from Imam Khomeini International Airport bound for Kyiv just after 6 a.m. local time. The plane reached about 8,000 feet in altitude.
All 176 passengers and crew on board the Ukrainian airliner died, Iranian officials say.
Among the dead are 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, and 11 Ukrainians, and …read more
Source:: The Daily Signal
