KYIV, Ukraine—U.S. officials say Iran likely shot down a Ukrainian airliner by accident Wednesday morning, just hours after the Islamist regime launched a barrage of ballistic missiles at bases in Iraq housing U.S. troops. According to news reports, American intelligence suggests that Iran fired two Cold War-era, Tor surface-to-air missiles at Ukrainian International Airlines Flight 752, a Boeing 737-800 jet, about two minutes after takeoff from Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran. U.S. satellites reportedly detected launch of the Iranian missiles, as well as their track toward the Ukrainian airliner carrying 176 passengers and crew. According to GPS flight data, …read more
Source:: The Daily Signal
