WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. officials said Thursday it was "highly likely" that an Iranian anti-aircraft missile downed a Ukrainian jetliner late Tuesday, killing all 176 people on board. They suggested it could well have been a mistake.
Two U.S. officials said it was “highly likely” that an Iranian anti-aircraft missile downed a Ukrainian jetliner late Tuesday, killing all 176 people on board.
Ukrainian president also calls for full admission of guilt, justice and compensation
Officials wouldn’t say what intelligence they had that pointed to an Iranian missile. But they acknowledged the existence of satellites and other sensors in the region.
A report released by Iran late on Saturday claimed a number of factors, including miscommunication between soldiers and commanders, were to blame for the shooting down of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752.
Iran’s top diplomat acknowledged Wednesday that Iranians “were lied to” for days after the Islamic Republic accidentally shot down a Ukrainian jetliner.
A Ukraine airline's flight crashed after taking off from Tehran. There were no survivors. Iran hasn't said whether it will release black boxes.
A Ukranian International Airlines plane crashed Wednesday morning shortly after takeoff from Tehran, Iran due to mechanical issues, according to Iranian state media.
A missing plane carrying Iran's transport minister and six members of parliament has reportedly been found with all on board dead.
American, French and Canadian experts will help analyze the data in Ukraine.
A passenger killed in the deadly Iranian commercial plane crash on Sunday reportedly channeled his faith just moments before take-off, sending his girlfriend one last text.
Ukraine outlined four potential scenarios on Thursday to explain the deadly crash of one of its airliners in Iran, including a missile strike and terrorism, as Iranian investigators said the plane was on fire before it fell to the ground.
At least two adults died and one child was missing after a passenger plane carrying 171 people crash-landed at Tehran's main airport on Wednesday night, an aviation official said.
A passenger jet traveling from Iran to Kiev, Ukraine, crashed Wednesday shortly after takeoff, killing all 176 passengers and crew members on board.Iranian state TV said the Boeing 737-800 crashed
Ukraine Boeing 737 Plane Crash in Iran Today: The plane belonging to Ukraine International Airlines crashed minutes after take-off from the Imam Khomeini International Airport.
Iran's cabinet on Wednesday allocated $150,000 for the families of each of the 176 victims of a Ukrainian plane shot down in Iranian airspace in January, the official IRNA news agency reported.
A passenger killed in the deadly Iranian commercial plane crash on Sunday reportedly channeled his faith just moments before take-off, sending his girlfriend one last text.
Iranian search and rescue teams on Monday reached the site of a plane crash the previous day that authorities say killed all 65 people on board, Iran's Press TV reported.
A small military jet crashed in Iran on Monday, killing the commander of the ground forces of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards and at least 12 other people, state media said.
A Jet Carrying 168 People Crashed After Takeoff, Smashing into a Field in Northwest Tehran
A senior Ukrainian security official on Thursday described four main theories for why a Ukrainian plane crashed in Iran killing 176 people.
Ukraine outlined four potential scenarios on Thursday to explain the deadly crash of one of its airliners in Iran, including a missile strike and terrorism, as Iranian investigators said the plane was on fire before it fell to the ground.
Iran dismisses reports that a missile brought down a Ukrainian airliner with 176 on board as ‘illogical rumours’.
Iran's Cabinet on Wednesday allocated $150,000 for the families of each of the 176 victims of a Ukrainian plane shot down in Iranian airspace in January, the official IRNA news agency reported.
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176 died in the Ukrainian jet crash. Iranian investigators cite factors including misaligned missiles, miscommunication between soldiers and commanders.
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British fighter jets escorted a Pakistan International Airlines passenger plane to Stansted Airport near London on Friday, where police went on board and arrested two men on suspicion of endangering an aircraft.
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The black boxes of the Malaysia Airlines flight will be analysed by Britain's Air Accidents Investigation Branch
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A problem with a carburetor part led to engine failure and the crash of a vintage airplane piloted by actor Harrison Ford in California earlier this year, federal investigators said Thursday.
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The new taxiway is expected to help avert near-collisions on two runways on the airport's south side.
A jetliner carrying 98 people struggled to takeoff Friday morning and then crashed in Kazakhstan just moments after it managed to take flight, killing at least 12 and injuring dozens more.
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The Discovery Channel intentionally crashed a plane to ironically prove how safe they are to take.
A former fighter pilot was hailed as the hero of the Hudson after he crash-landed a stricken US Airways jet in the river.
* Hamilton of Leeham News said the episode "is an embarrassing headline, but as a practical issue, it will have no impact on Boeing."
Video posted on Twitter from an emergency on Saturday showed the 777's engine fully engulfed in flames after takeoff from Denver.
Four Contra Costa County residents and a Los Angeles man have been identified as the five people killed aboard a twin-engine plane that crashed Sunday in a parking lot in Santa Ana near Costa Mesa’s South Coast Plaza mall, officials said.
Six hundred feet short of the runway and decades before his time, Thurman Lee Munson died a quarter of a century ago in the fiery wreckage of a blue pinstriped jet. He was 32 years old. Munson was not planning to fly that day.
Julian Lattermann, 18, of Dover, and his teacher, Sydney Miti, 32, of Waltham, were killed in the crash, authorities said.
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The National Transportation Safety Board called out the Federal Aviation Administration for failing to adhere to warnings it gave more than a decade ago regarding the safety of skydiving charter planes like the one that crashed Friday killing 11 people in Hawaii.
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A plane travelling from the Canary Islands with 189 passengers on board overshoots as it lands at Newcastle Airport.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Reporters mobbed Asiana Airlines President Yoon Young-doo as he walked into San Francisco International Airport on Tuesday afternoon, eventually chasing the executive back through the arrivals door. About 50 reporters had gathered at the airport's international arrivals area for...
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It was not exactly up there with the failure to uncover weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, but the effort to discredit the Iranian regime took an embarrassing turn this week with a false media report claiming that Tehran had passed a law requiring Jews and other religious minorities to wear special badges.The report and a related column by
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UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has cancelled his forthcoming trip to Tehran, a UN spokesperson said.
Britain will soon be "slapped in the face" for the capture of an Iranian supertanker last week, Iranian state TV quoted a cleric as saying on Friday, amid heightened tension between Iran and the West in the Gulf.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad heads to Pakistan and India this week to put the finishing touches on a controversial deal to build a pipeline that would deliver Iranian gas to both countries, Iran's semi-official Fars news agency says.
President Obama called Sunday for the release of a U.S. journalist convicted of espionage in Iran.
A senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards has urged the country's judiciary to mete out harsh sentences to what he described as "mercenaries" involved in protests against a fuel price hike last week, the judiciary's Mizan news site reported.
Iran on Monday dismissed an angry warning from U.S. President Donald Trump that Tehran risked dire consequences "the like of which few throughout history have suffered before" if it made threats against the United States.
The EU delayed a decision over an Iranian oil embargo sought by France and Britain on Thurs. but agreed to sanctions on 180 Iranian entities.
State media says Iran will reduce compliance to accord as other parties have failed to ‘live up to their commitments’.
Iran's parliament voted Wednesday to urge the government to "revise" ties with the U.N. nuclear agency in a move seen as likely to reduce the country's cooperation with the international atomic authority.
Females were not allowed to enter Iran's first marathon. Two women ran anyway in protest.
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Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the IRGC's Aerospace Force: "The naval ballistic missile called Hormuz 2 successfully destroyed a target which was 250 km away."
Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi reiterated Tehran’s assertion that the missiles are not designed to carry nuclear weapons.
Shooting by unknown assailants has forced the British embassy in Tehran to close, according to the Foreign Office in London.
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Iran began 10 days of naval exercises in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, raising concern about a possible closure of the world's most strategic oil transit channel in the event of any outbreak of military conflict between Tehran and the West.
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