Tragedy struck on Wednesday (8 Jan) when a Ukrainian Boeing 737-800 carrying 180 people crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran.
All aboard the flight were killed, the Iran Red Crescent reported.
Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 had taken off from Imam Khomeini International Airport and was bound for Kyiv, Ukraine’s capital.
The plane crashed because of technical problems, according to the Iranian Students News Agency, a state-run media agency.
Rescue teams had been sent to the crash site, but due to the large fire, Mr Pirhossein Koulivand, head of Iran’s emergency services said it was too difficult to attempt a rescue.
Boeing under scrutiny
If you look up Boeing in the dictionary, you’d see this:
People don’t feel safe boarding their planes, and with good reason.
The Boeing 737 Max was grounded in March 2019 after two Max jets crashed in less than five months, killing a total of 346 people. Lion Air Flight 610 crashed on 29 October 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 crashed on 10 March last year.
The public scrutiny since the crashes has created a crisis for Boeing and led to the firing of its chief executive.
And with this latest crash, it looks like things are only going to get worse for the aerospace company.
Crash came after ballistic missile attack
If your only source of news is Goody Feed, you may know 7 facts about nose hair but are probably unaware that Donald Trump may have inadvertently instigated the third world war a few days ago.
On 3 Jan, Qassim Soleimani, an Iranian major general, was killed by missiles shot from American drones which targeted his convoy near Baghdad International Airport.
Just hours before the crash of the Ukranian plane in Tehran, Iran launched a ballistic missile attack targeting two bases in Iraq housing U.S. forces in retaliation for the killing of Soleimani, reported The New York Times.
The crash came at a time of political tensions between Iran and the U.S. On Tuesday (7 Jan), the Federal Aviation Administration (F.A.A.) banned American airliners from flying over Iran, citing the risk of commercial planes being mistaken for military aircraft.
Even Singapore airlines said on Wednesday (8 Jan) it was diverting all flight routes from Iranian airspace following Iran’s missile attack in Iraq.
Things are tense at the moment, to say the least.
