Hassan Shadkhoo said his wife had a premonition the plane was going down. Just before she left Iran, she posted a selfie on Instagram expressing her fears.
She'd taken three weeks off from her job in Toronto to visit her mother and sisters in Tehran. Her vacation was over, and she was heading back to Canada to her husband, Hassan Shadkhoo. Her flight was leaving from Tehran to the Ukrainian capital of Kiev early Wednesday. Hassan Shadkhoo shows a photo of his wife of 10 years, Sheyda Shadkhoo. "I spoke to her ... 20 minutes before the plane took off," he said Wednesday night in Toronto.
Read MoreHassan Shadkhoo said his wife had a premonition the plane was going down, and was worried about the people she was leaving behind. She posted a selfie on Instagram expressing her fears before she left Iran."She knew. Look at her face, look at the poem that she wrote," he said as he held up his phone to show the photo she posted. Then he read the words she wrote, his voice breaking.
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