Bereaved friends and families joined in mourning after a Ukrainian airliner crashed near Tehran killing all 176 on board, as heartbreaking details started emerging about the victims, most of them from Iran and Canada. There was no immediate indication that foul play may have caused the Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) plane to go down soon after take-off, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky warned against speculating on the crash causes. “About an hour ago, a Ukrainian Airlines plane just landed in Toronto from Kiev,” Trudeau said at a press conference. A video aired by Iran’s state broadcaster appeared to show the plane already on fire as it fell. “The plane was in working order,” company president Yevgeniy Dykhne told a briefing in Kiev where he choked back tears.

Source: Egypt Independent January 09, 2020 03:33 UTC