Iran detains six people charged with downing Ukrainian plane

09.06.2020 15:18

Ukrinform

Six people charged with the downing of Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 near Tehran airport on January 8 have currently been detained in Iran, according to IRNA.

"[Iran's] judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili said that six defendants had been detained so far in connection with the case of the crash of a Ukrainian plane, three of whom were released on bail and three others are in custody," the report reads.

According to him, the judiciary, in particular, the Judicial Organization of the Armed Forces, deals with the case of the crash of the Ukrainian plane.

The Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) plane (flight PS752) heading from Tehran to Kyiv crashed shortly after it took off from the Imam Khomeini International Airport at about 06:00 Tehran time (04:30 Kyiv time) on 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). They all died.

Iran's official in the International Civil Aviation Organization agreed in March to hand over the black box flight recorders to France or Ukraine for analysis, but this has not been done so far.

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