Search and rescue works are carried out at web site after a Boeing 737 aircraft belonging to a Ukrainian airline crashed close to Imam Khomeini Air
Search and rescue works are carried out at web site after a Boeing 737 aircraft belonging to a Ukrainian airline crashed close to Imam Khomeini Airport in Iran simply after takeoff with 180 passengers on board in Parand, Iran on January 08, 2020.
Anadolu Company
A Boeing 737 passenger aircraft operated by a Ukrainian airline crashed minutes after take-off from Tehran killing all on board, Iranian information companies mentioned Wednesday.
Iranian state tv mentioned the crash was on account of technical issues. The aircraft was operated by Ukraine Worldwide Airline and was leaving Tehran’s Imam Khomeini Worldwide Airport.
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky mentioned that there have been no survivors, Reuters reported.
There have been conflicting reviews in regards to the variety of individuals onboard. Ukraine’s overseas ministry official instructed Reuters that there have been greater than 160 passengers whereas Iran’s Fars Information Company mentioned the aircraft was carrying 180 individuals.
Fars Flightradar24, a flight-tracking web site, recognized the aircraft as Flight 752, a 737-800 that was sure for the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv from Tehran. The aircraft stopped transmitting information about two minutes into the flight.
The 737-800 is an kind of Boeing 737 that got here earlier than the 737 Max, the kind that regulators grounded worldwide in March after two deadly crashes in a span of 5 months. The airline obtained this 737-800 new in 2016,…