KIEV, Jan 8 — The Ukrainian airliner that crashed outside Tehran today killing over 170 people was a Boeing 737 built in 2016 and checked only two days before the accident, the company said. “The plane was manufactured in 2016, it was received by the airline directly from the (Boeing) factory....
Rescue teams recover debris from a field after a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 passengers crashed near Imam Khomeini airport in the Iranian capital Tehran January 8, 2020, killing everyone on board. — AFP pic
“The plane was manufactured in 2016, it was received by the airline directly from the factory. The plane underwent its last planned technical maintenance on January 6, 2020,” Ukraine International Airlines said in a statement. There were no survivors among the crew and passengers, who were mostly Iranian and Canadian nationals, according to Ukraine’s foreign ministry.
It was notifying passengers’ families and working with aviation authorities “to do everything possible to find the reasons for the aviation accident”.
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