Statements, legal dispatches, and news from the Association of Families of Flight PS752 Victims.
“Five months later, there are no more answers than we had five weeks/days after the tragedy”, said Ralph Goodale, special advisor of PM Trudeau in Flight 752 case. Hamed Esmaeilion, the speaker of 752AFV:So far, we have more than 100 families of victims in our association. There are ongoing harassments from the Iranian regime, they ...
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Canada and four other countries are still trying to pressure Iran to release the flight recorders from a Ukrainian passenger plane shot down in January over Tehran, Transport Minister Marc Garneau says. As Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 took off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini international airport on January 8, heading for Kyiv, two Islamic Revolution ...
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The head of Ukrainian investigation team has said that evidence from the passengers on board flight PS752 suggests that something had happened to the plane even before it was hit by the missiles fired at it by the Revolutionary Guard. Alexander Ruvin, Director of the Kyiv Research Institute of Forensics, says evidence shows that passengers ...
Read MoreAmirali Alavi, a member of the Association of Families of Flight #PS752 Victims, explained details of the virtual meeting with Hon. Ambassador of Ukraine. We raised several of our concerns including how the skies were kept open for commercial aircrafts amid the known tensions, the firing of two successive missiles, the initial cover-up for three ...
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In an interview with RFE/RL on Thursday, the Foreign Minister of Ukraine underlined that Ukraine will continue to work with the other countries whose citizens were killed when Iran shot down an airliner January 8 and not seek a separate settlement with Iran. Radio Farda reported April 14 that Iran was offering Ukraine a Memorandum ...
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Today, April 16, 2020 is the 100th day since the missile attack of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the UIA flight PS752 passenger aircraft over Tehran which claimed 177 innocent lives. Unfortunately, Iranian authorities have not yet answered any of our numerous questions about this horrific crime. One hundred days have passed and there ...
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After a month of silence, the Islamic Republic Minister of Roads and Transport, Mohammad Eslami, said on Sunday that the coronavirus outbreak in Iran had stopped the procedure of decoding the black boxes of the Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) passenger plane downed on January 8 over Tehran. The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps’ (IRGC) missiles shot ...
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The black box of a Ukrainian passenger airliner mistakenly shot down over Iran last month is damaged and Iran will not hand it over to another country despite pressure for access, state media quoted top Iranian ministers as saying on February 19. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said last week that he had “impressed upon” ...
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KYIV – Ukrainian officials have unveiled a monument at Kyiv’s international airport to commemorate the victims of a Ukrainian airliner that crash in Iran last month. The Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Boeing 737-800 crashed on January 8 after taking off from Tehran’s primary international airport, killing all 176 people aboard. Three days after the tragedy, ...
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The representatives of the nations that lost citizens when Iran shot down a civilian plane on January 8 over Tehran have called upon the Islamic Republic to hand over the black boxes for expert analysis. Victims of the crash included 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, eleven Ukrainians, ten Swedes, four Afghans, three Germans, and three Britons. ...
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has said in televised remarks that Iran offered $80,000 per victim after it shot down a Ukrainian passenger jet on January 8, but that Ukraine did not accept the offer because “it was too little.” Zelenskiy added in his comments made on Ukrainian 1+1 television that “of course, human life is ...
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The coffins of 11 Ukrainians killed when Iran’s military mistakenly shot down a passenger airliner after takeoff from Tehran international airport arrived in Kyiv on January 19 as new questions emerged over Iranian officials’ cooperation in ongoing investigations into the tragedy. President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk, and other senior Ukrainian officials participated in ...
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