Category: Flight 752

Ottawa Rejects Iran Report That Blames Shootdown of Flight 752 on ‘Human Error’

March 18, 2021
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OTTAWA—The federal government is rejecting outright a final report by Iran’s civil aviation authority that blames “human error” as the reason why a passenger jet was shot down by the Iranian military in January 2020. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard fired two missiles at Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 shortly after it took off from Tehran on…

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Families of Downed Ukrainian Flight 752 Victims Struggle With Loss a Year Later

January 5, 2021
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A broken cellphone and a muddied wallet were the only possessions Alireza Ghandchi received from Iran after his wife and two children were killed in a Ukrainian plane crash last year. “No luggage, no dolls, no anything,” he said. His son, Daniel, was eight-years-old and his daughter, Dorsa, was just three days shy of turning…

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