Iran releases final technical report on UIA plane crash – media

22.12.2020 15:54

Ukrinform

The Civil Aviation Organization of Iran released the final technical report on the January 8 crash of UIA’s flight PS752 near Tehran.

The report was given via videoconference to the officials of the other countries whose citizens were involved in the fatal incident, Tasnim News Agency reports.

The participants in the webinar also held a series of talks about the technical report.

As reported, Ukraine International Airlines plane (Flight PS752) heading from Tehran to Kyiv crashed shortly after taking off from the Imam Khomeini International Airport at about 06:00 Tehran time (04:30 Kyiv time) on Wednesday, January 8. There were 176 people on board – nine crew members (all Ukrainians) and 167 passengers (citizens of Ukraine, Iran, Canada, Sweden, Afghanistan, Germany, and the UK).

On January 11, Iran admitted that its military had accidentally shot down the Ukrainian passenger jet. Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) accepted full responsibility for the downing of the Ukrainian airliner.