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    Iran report blames error for downing of Flight 752

    Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 17 Mar, 2021 05:46 PM
    • Iran report blames error for downing of Flight 752

    Iran's civil aviation authority is pinpointing an error by an air-defence unit as the reason why a passenger jet was shot down by the Iranian military in January 2020

    The agency says in a final report into the crash that two missiles were fired at Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 shortly after takeoff from Tehran on Jan. 8 last year after an operator "misidentified" the plane as a "hostile target."

    The report, which Canada's Transportation Safety Board will comment on Thursday, backs up what the Iranian military said last year: human error caused the tragedy.

    Iran initially denied involvement, but three days later said it was shot down by accident after being mistaken for a missile amid heightened tensions with the United States.

    Iran's Revolutionary Guard shot down the Kyiv-bound Boeing 737-800 several days after then-U.S. president Donald Trump ordered a strike that killed a top Iranian general.

    All 176 people on board the jetliner were killed, including 55 Canadian citizens, 30 permanent residents and dozens of others bound for Canada.

     

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