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B-737 plane crash. Iran: "it was a technical problem"

An engine would have caught fire

According to the first results of the investigation launched by the Iranian Air Force on the Ukraine Airlines B-737 plane crashed on January 8 in Tehran (see AVIONEWS), the aircraft before falling was reversing the course due to a technical problem. The disaster caused the death of 176 people and yesterday Iran had declared its intention not to deliver the black boxes to the aircraft manufacturer Boeing...

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Kíev, Ukraine, 01/09/2020 12:51
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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After almost eight months, black boxes revealed a terrible truth about Ukraine International Airlines plane, flight 752, shot down by two Iranian missiles on January 8th. According to reports from the... more

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