{"id":309930,"date":"2020-01-10T12:47:32","date_gmt":"2020-01-10T07:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=309930"},"modified":"2020-01-10T12:58:58","modified_gmt":"2020-01-10T07:28:58","slug":"iran-says-rumours-missile-caused-plane-crash-make-no-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/iran-says-rumours-missile-caused-plane-crash-make-no-sense\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran says rumours missile caused plane crash make &#8216;no sense&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Iran on Thursday ruled out a missile strike as the cause of a Ukrainian passenger plane crash near Tehran, saying such a scenario made &#8220;no sense&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The plane crashed shortly after take off Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board, shortly after Iran fired a volley of missiles against military bases in Iraq housing US personnel.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Several internal and international flights were flying at the same time in Iranian airspace at the same altitude of 8,000 feet (2,440 metres),&#8221; Iran&#8217;s transport ministry said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This story of a missile striking a plane cannot be correct at all,&#8221; it said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Such rumours make no sense,&#8221; Ali Abedzadeh, head of Iran&#8217;s civil aviation organisation and deputy transport minister, said in the statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran on Thursday ruled out a missile strike as the cause of a Ukrainian passenger plane crash near Tehran, saying such a scenario made &#8220;no sense&#8221;. The plane crashed shortly after take off Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board, shortly after Iran fired a volley of missiles against military bases in Iraq housing US personnel. &#8220;Several internal and international flights were flying at the same time in Iranian airspace at the same altitude of 8,000 feet (2,440 metres),&#8221; Iran&#8217;s transport ministry said. &#8220;This story of a missile striking a plane cannot be correct at all,&#8221; it said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,130,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-pioneer","category-newspapers","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309930\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}