#Breaking First footage of the Ukrainian airplane while on fire falling near #Tehran pic.twitter.com/kGxnBb7f1q— Ali Hashem علي هاشم (@alihashem_tv) January 8, 2020
Ukranian Airlines Boeing 737 with 180 aboard crashes shortly after take-off from airport in Tehran 'due to technical problems' just hours after missiles were fired at US bases
- A Ukrainian passenger plane carrying 180 people has crashed near Tehran
- The airliner, said to be a Boeing 737, went down near Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, according to local media
- Fars News Agency reported the plane suffered technical problems then went down minutes after take-off in Tehran
- Video appeared to show the first footage of a Ukrainian flight no. PS 752 plane falling and fire from the scene
A Ukrainian passenger plane carrying 180 passengers and crew has crashed near Tehran just three minutes after takeoff.
The plane had taken off from Imam Khomeini International Airport when it suffered 'technical problems', Iranian State TV reported.
Unverified video footage tweeted by the BBC's Iran correspondent appeared to show the plane burning in the sky before crashing in a huge explosion.
Flight information shows Ukrainian flight PS752 - a Boeing 737-800 - taking off at 2.44am UTC (6.14am local time) and reaching a height of 7,925ft before the data abruptly ends.
An investigation team was at the site of the crash in southwestern outskirts of Tehran, Iran's civil aviation spokesman Reza Jafarzadeh told the Associated Press.
A Ukrainian passenger plane carrying 180 passengers and crew has crashed near Tehran just three minutes after takeoff, Iranian State TV reported. The aircraft took off 2.44am UTC (6:14am local time) and had reached 7,925ft
The Boeing 737 was doing 275kts when it went down near Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport, according to the flight record
The crash came hours after Iran launched a ballistic missile attack targeting two bases in Iraq housing U.S. forces in retaliation for the killing of Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani had previously made veiled threats to American airliners after tweeting a reference to the 1988 Lockerbie bombing that killed 270 people.
Rouhani tweeted that America should 'never threaten Iran' after warning the US should 'remember the number 290' in reference to an incident when the US Navy accidentally shot down an Iranian passenger jet in the Persian Gulf in July 1988, killing 290.
Some Middle East experts have taken this as a veiled reference to the Lockerbie terrorist attack, which saw a bomb destroy Pan Am flight 103 over Scotland in December 1988 killing 270 - months after the downing of Iranian flight 655.
Libya has always been blamed for the Lockerbie bombing, and one of their intelligence agents was jailed in Scotland for the terror attack.
But Western spies believe Tehran played a role in the attack and executed it in revenge for the downing of the Iranian passenger jet - now Rouhani's sinister return to the episode and threatening of consequences has fueled those suspicions.
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