The Iranian government has claimed responsibility of the Ukraine Plane that Crash shortly after take off in Iran killing all passenger on board.
Iran said they fired missile to bring down the passenger plane shortly after it took off from its main airport on Wednesday morning 8th of January 2020.
Iranian foreign minister Javad Zarif said in a statement Saturday morning.
That “A sad day. Preliminary conclusions of internal investigation by Armed Forces: Human error at time of crisis caused by US adventurism led to disaster,”
“Our profound regrets, apologies and condolences to our people, to the families of all victims, and to other affected nations.”
The Ukrainian International Plane, Boeing 737-800 passenger plane operated by crash shortly after take off from Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran on Wednesday 8th of January 2020 at about 6:12 a.m. killing All 176 passengers and crew members on board.
82 Iranians citizens were among of the 176 people died in the crash.
Their was suspicion that Iranian government were responsible for the crash, but Iran dismissed the claim on the State Television, said “it a big lie”, the day the crashed happened.
Like wise, Ukraine also initially dismissed reports that the plane was shot down, but later retracted after emerging evidence began showing high possibility of a missile attack.
But on Thursday, a day after the crash, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada announced that evidence from Canadian and other Western intelligence outfits showed Iran fired a missile at the plane. Canada had the highest number of nationals on the plane: 63. Germany, the United Kingdom and Ukraine also had citizens on it.
Ukrainian aviation experts had been given access to the flight recording devices that were recovered shortly after the crash, but it was not immediately clear whether they had commenced analysis.
Iran had said it would seek support from international partners, especially from France and Canada, to study evidence collected from the crash site.
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