High-level officials responsible for Ukraine airliner crash in Iran -victims’ report
The 2020 downing of a Ukrainian jetliner by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards was the responsibility of high-level Iranian officials, not an accident caused by a missile system operator as Tehran claimed, families of victims allege in a report on Wednesday.
The report by an association composed of mostly Canadian families of Flight PS752 victims challenges Iran’s official findings that blamed a misaligned radar and an error by the air defence operator for downing the plane shortly after it took off from Tehran’s Airport. All 176 people aboard were killed.
Iran’s civil aviation body, which had responsibilityfor investigating the crash, said the operator mistook the jet for a missile at a time when tensions were high between Tehran and the United States.
