Passenger plane crash: Iran has charged 10 officials

The Boeing 737 of Ukraine International Airlines had a sudden emergency and crashed.

The Boeing 737 of Ukraine International Airlines had a sudden emergency and crashed.

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Iran says 10 officials have been charged with shooting down a Ukrainian airliner last year. According to Al Jazeera, an Iranian military prosecutor informed about the development. During a ceremony, Gholamabbas Torki said he would be arraigned soon, but the military prosecutor declined to name the suspects. He said 10 people would face disciplinary action, including dismissal or a reduction in tenure. Gholamabbas Torki said he would be tried soon. On Tuesday, Shukrallah Bahrami, head of the Iranian Armed Forces Judicial Organization, confirmed that the case had been settled in a military court and that an indictment had been issued. Referring to the Iranian New Year starting March 21, he said that insha’Allah; the case will be heard in the New Year. It should be noted that on January 3, 2020, Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Al-Quds Force and a very important commander, was killed in a US drone strike, along with Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. I was killed. Tensions in the Middle East escalated after the death of Qassem Soleimani. On January 8, 2020, Iran fired 15 ballistic missiles at two US and allied military bases in Iraq in response to the death of General Qassem Soleimani and claimed to have killed 80 Americans. A few hours later, a Ukrainian passenger plane taking off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Airport crashed, killing all 176 people on board.

The Ukrainian prime minister confirmed that 176 people were on board, including 167 passengers and nine crew members. The Ukrainian foreign minister said the plane was carrying 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, Swedes, four Afghans, three Germans and three British nationals, as well as 11 Ukrainians, including nine crew members and two passengers. On January 9, Iran revealed in a preliminary investigation report on a Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed that it did not make a single radio call for help after a fire broke out in the passenger plane while it was traveling. I tried to go back. The Iranian investigation report said that a few minutes after taking off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport, a Boeing 737 of Ukraine International Airlines suddenly declared an emergency and crashed. Later, on January 21, 2020, Iran admitted to shooting down a Ukrainian plane, saying that the plane was hit by an unintentional human error.

The Iranian military said in a statement on state broadcaster that the crashed Ukrainian plane was flying near a sensitive Revolutionary Guards military site and had been inadvertently hit by a human error. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani confirmed in a tweet on the social networking site Twitter that an internal investigation by the armed forces had concluded that a Ukrainian plane had crashed as a result of a tragic human-fired missile. 176 innocent people were killed.

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