01/09/20
A Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran killing all 176 people on board was accidentally shot down by an anti-aircraft missile, a Pentagon official claims.
Pentagon and US intelligence officials have claimed a Ukrainian Airlines Boeing 737 that crashed in Iran on Wednesday morning killing all 176 aboard was shot down by a surface-to-air missile
The Ukrainian Airlines Boeing 737-800 that crashed in Tehran early Wednesday is believed to have been downed by a Russian made Tor M-1 anti-aircraft missile system, according to spy satellite evidence.
A senior US intelligence official and Iraqi intelligence official made the same claim to Newsweek, with a US official going on to tell ABC News it was ‘highly likely’ the jet was shot down.
The missile system now suspected of downing the plane moments after it took off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeni International Airport is believed to have been activated following last Friday’s assassination of Iran’s top General Qasem Soleimani. Iran forbade American officials from getting involved with the investigation into the crash.
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