By Matthias Williams, Mark Hosenball and David Ljunggren
By Matthias Williams, Mark Hosenball and David Ljunggren
KIEV/WASHINGTON/OTTAWA, Jan 8 (Reuters) – A Ukrainian airliner fell to earth in a fireball shortly after take-off from Tehran on Wednesday, killing all 176 folks on board in a crash that intelligence sources mentioned was seemingly brought on by a technical malfunction.
The Ukraine Worldwide Airways Boeing 737-800, en path to Kiev and carrying largely Iranians and Iranian-Canadians, crashed hours after Iran fired missiles at bases housing U.S. forces in Iraq, main some to invest that the aircraft might have been hit.
However 5 safety sources – three Individuals, one European and one Canadian – who requested to not be named, informed Reuters the preliminary evaluation of Western intelligence companies was that the aircraft had suffered a technical malfunction and had not been introduced down by a missile. There was proof one of many jet’s engines had overheated, the Canadian supply mentioned.
The crash comes at a troublesome time for planemaker Boeing…