UKRAINIAN EMBASSY RETRACTS STATEMENT BLAMING IRAN PLANE CRASH ON ENGINE FAILURE

Newsweek ^ | January 8 2020 | DAVID BRENNAN

[knighthawk]

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has ordered a criminal investigation into the crash of a Ukraine International Airlines plane near the Iranian capital on Wednesday morning, as the country's embassy in Tehran hastened to retract its initial response to the tragedy.

The plane was carrying at least 176 people to Kiev when it crashed shortly after takeoff from Imam Khomeini international. The aircraft left the airport just after 6.10 a.m. Tehran time and crashed some five minutes later, according to Iranian officials.

Ukraine's embassy in Iran initially issued a statement saying the aircraft was brought down engine failure, not because of terrorism or a missile strike.

[Celtic Conservative]

Hmmmm.

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[Bruce Campbells Chin]

I don't think Iran would have shot this down deliberately...but I could see how some nervous goofball might have seen that plane and fired before thinking.

I hope there were survivors, but it makes Iran look terrible regardless.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Trigger happy Iranians?

[eyeamok]

So who on this flight was connected to Burisma, Bidens, Crowdstrike...??

[metmom]

Yeah, riigghhttt......

[NonValueAdded]

Pretty clear it was shot down by a panicked air defense unit, thinking it eas an American bomber.

[silverleaf]

Boeing is not going to pay claims on this one

With airspace closed over the Persian Gulf and war going on it seems incredibly irresponsible that flights were continued out of Tehran

[DarthVader]

Could have been hit by a SAM being run in Auto Mode.

[familyop]

According to an Iranian news outlet, 82 of the dead from the plane shot down were Iranian. Iran killed 56 with a stampede at a tactical funeral. So yes, Iran is a force for some people to be fearful of in warfare.

[silverleaf]

63 Canadians onboard, handful of Brits

[Travis McGee]

Somebody might have responded to an upgraded alert status, and switched his AA system to automatic mode.

Big oh shit for the Teheran regime, this will for sure cool their jets if they shot down a passenger plane by accident.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

That would make sense.

[Travis McGee]

Exactly. See above, GMTA.

[McGavin999]

We need to know who was on that plane

[AppyPappy]

Too coincidental. Let’s see how Trudeau blames Trump for this

[silverleaf]

Photos of wreckage look riddled with holes
Missile burst or AAA

[ptsal]

Pretty quick research on the cause of the problem. /s

[READINABLUESTATE]

“Could have been hit by a SAM being run in Auto Mode.”

S-400?

[kiryandil]

The head Iranocrats, “Granny Botox” Pelosi and “Cuck” Schumer, are going to blame this directly on Orange Man Bad.