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.
The plane belonging to Ukraine International Airlines crashed minutes after take-off from the Imam Khomeini International Airport. (Twitter/@isna_farsi)
Ukraine Boeing 737 Plane Crash in Iran Today: All 170 passengers and crew aboard the Boeing 737 were killed after the flight crashed in Tehran on Wednesday, an Iran emergency official told state television. The plane belonging to Ukraine International Airlines crashed minutes after take-off from the Imam Khomeini International Airport.
“The fire is so heavy that we cannot (do) any rescue… we have 22 ambulances, four bus ambulances and a helicopter at the site,” Pirhossein Koulivand, head of Iran’s emergency services, told state television.
“After taking off from Imam Khomeini International Airport, it crashed between Parand and Shahriar,” civil aviation spokesman Reza Jafarzadeh said. “An investigation team from the national aviation department was dispatched to the location after the news was announced.”
According to air tracking service FlightRadar24, the plane that crashed was Flight PS 752 and was flying to Kiev. The plane was three years old and was a Boeing 737-NG, it said. The airline’s call centre in Kiev said it had no information yet. Boeing spokesman Gordon Johndroe said the company was aware of media reports of a plane crash in Iran and was gathering more information.
An investigation team was at the site of the crash in southwestern outskirts of Tehran (Source: Twitter/@StratSentinel)
A photo later published by Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency showed rescue officials in a farm field, with what appeared to be pieces of the aircraft laying nearby.
State TV earlier said there were 180 passengers and crew aboard. The crash came hours after Iran launched a ballistic missile attack targeting two bases in Iraq housing US forces in retaliation for the killing of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
The Boeing 737-800 is a very common single-aisle, twin-engine jetliner used for short to medium-range flights. Thousands of the planes are used by airlines around the world. Introduced in the late 1990s, it is an older model than the Boeing 737 MAX, which has been grounded for nearly 10 months following two deadly crashes.
The plane was three years old and was a Boeing 737-NG
Boeing, like other airline manufacturers, typically assists in crash investigations. However, that effort, in this case, could be affected by the US sanctions campaign in place on Iran since President Donald Trump unilaterally withdrew from Tehran’s nuclear deal with world powers in May 2018.
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