Tributes have been paid to three British men who were among 176 people who died when a Ukranian Boeing-737 crashed after taking off from Tehran. They were Mohammad Reza Kadkhoda Zadeh, 40, a British-Iranian who ran a dry cleaning shop in Sussex, Sam Zokaei, a BP employee, and engineer Saeed Tahmabessi. He was listed on a Linkedin page as being a senior reservoir engineer who had studied at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. A spokesperson for Imperial College London described him as a brilliant engineer who had a bright future. Preliminary statements by Iranian and Ukrainian authorities suggest the plane suffered an engine malfunction, though the airline did not detail any reasons for the crash.

Source: The Guardian January 08, 2020 15:13 UTC