Iran may hand over downed plane's black boxes to Ukraine
World | February 08, 2020 10:45 ISTIranian Ambassador to Ukraine Manouchehr Moradi has said that Tehran might hand over the black boxes of a downed Ukrainian Boeing passenger plane to Ukraine
Iranian Ambassador to Ukraine Manouchehr Moradi has said that Tehran might hand over the black boxes of a downed Ukrainian Boeing passenger plane to Ukraine
Tehran launched an investigation into the Ukrainian plane crash and on Tuesday announced to have made the first arrests in connection with the incident. Iran had invited the UN for support in its probe into the Ukrainian plane crash.
Iran's President Rouhani called for special court for plane crash. Rouhani said: "The judiciary should form a special court with a high-ranking judge and dozens of experts. This is not a usual and ordinary case. The entire world will be watching this court."
Iran’s judiciary said Tuesday that arrests have been made for the accidental shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger plane that killed all 176 people on board just after takeoff from Tehran last week.
Iranian will announce the cause of the crash of a Ukrainian Boeing 737 passenger plane today after the accident investigation commission meeting, the Fars news agency reported citing a source.
The Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane that crashed after takeoff from Tehran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board, sought no radio help in its final moments and was making a return after takeoff, an early investigation into the crash has revealed. Here's the latest from the Boeing 737-800 crash investigation.
The Ukrainian Boeing 737 carried 167 passengers and 9 crew members from different nations on its flight to the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. The plane crashed near Tehran airport after it suffered a technical glitch and one of its engines caught fire. The crash killed all on board.
A Ukrainian plane Boeing 737 with 176 onboard crashed near Tehran immediately after it took off from Imam Khomeini International airport. No passenger has survived in the incident. Of those who lost their lives in this unfortunate incident, 82 were Iranians and 63 Canadians.
The Ukranian Boeing 737 had took off from Tehran and was en route to Ukraine capital Kyiv. The plane suffered a technical glitch and crashed moments after taking off from the Tehran airport.
Ukrainian Boeing 737 had took off from Tehran and was en route to Kyiv. The passenger plane was carrying 170 people onboard and crashed due to a technical glitch.
Global powers are warning that the world has become a more dangerous place after U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the targeted killing of Iran’s top general and are urging restraint on all sides. China, Russia and France, all permanent members of the U.N. Security Council, took a dim view of the US airstrike near Baghdad’s airport early Friday that killed Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
Since May, Iran has made three moves to build stockpiles of nuclear fuel and enrich low-grade uranium to a higher level of purity, and has started up advanced centrifuges to boost the country's stockpile of enriched uranium, which had been restricted by the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
A mob of Iranian students overran U.S. Marine guards in a three-hour struggle Sunday and invaded the American Embassy in Tehran, seizing dozens of staff members as hostages, Tehran Radio reported. They demanded that the United States send the exiled shah back to Iran for trial, the radio said.
Post-Saudi Aramco drone attack, Iran and USA having been throwing verbal punches at each other. Multiple top US officials have blamed Iran for backing those responsible for the attacks, while on the other hand Iran has distanced themselves from the Houthi rebels and warned USA that their military assets are in the region are in the reach of Iranian missiles.
In a statement, the US Central Command categorically termed it "false". "The Balad Air Base operations continue as normal. There are no plans, at this time, to evacuate any personnel from Balad," it said.
The latest Washington-Tehran frictions come after Iran suspended its commitments under the 2015 landmark international nuclear deal, and threatened to resume production of enriched uranium which is used to make reactor fuel and nuclear weapons.
The plane hit a building after the pilot chose the wrong runway.
The new warning might affect Indias as it is one of the biggest importers of the Iranaian oil and is currently developing the strategic Chabahar port.
The first temblor, measuring a magnitude of 4.6 rocked the town of Ruydar, in Hormozgan province, earlier in the day. The town is located some 940 kilometers, or 580 miles, south of the capital, Tehran.
Iranian state television quoted Mojtaba Khaledi, the spokesman of the country's emergency management organisation, as saying the plane hit a mountain in Shahr-e Kord and burst into flames.
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