Adds particulars of report
DUBAI, Jan 9 (Reuters) – A Ukrainian airliner was on hearth instantly earlier than it crashed southwest of Tehran, killing all 176 on board, in line with an preliminary report by Iranian investigators.
The Ukrainian Worldwide Airways Boeing 737-800, flying to Kiev and carrying principally Iranians and Iranian-Canadians, crashed shortly after taking off on Wednesday from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport.
The report by Iran’s civil aviation organisation cited witnesses on the bottom and in a passing plane flying at excessive altitude as saying the jet was on hearth whereas nonetheless aloft.
The three-year-old jet, which had its final scheduled upkeep on Monday, encountered a technical downside shortly after take-off and began to go towards a close-by airport earlier than it crashed, the report stated.
The technical downside was not specified within the report, which additionally stated that there was no radio communication from the pilot and that…