Reuters - Ukraine will make every effort to maximise compensation for a Ukrainian jet shot down by Iran on Jan. 8, but the talks with Iran, which started on Thursday, would not be easy, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba said. We will achieve justice, no matter how much time and effort it costs, Kuleba said in a statement published by the ...

MNA Ukranian Deputy FM unveiled three scenarios for holding further talks with Iran about the Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashed outside Irans capital on January 8. As Yenin Yevhen Volodymyrovych informed in an interview with Ukraine 24 TV channel, the country will follow up its talks with Iran over the issue in case the current ...

Reuters - An Iranian delegation will visit Ukraine on July 29 and 30 to discuss compensation for a Ukrainian jet shot down by Iran on Jan. 8, the Ukrainian Foreign Minister said on Monday. Given the circumstance of what happened, there are all reasons to ask from Iran to pay the highest price for what it did, Dmytro Kuleba, speaking in English, ...

Bloomberg - An Iranian air defense unit that forgot to adjust its radar system triggered a chain of communication and human errors that led to the deadly downing of a Ukrainian passenger jet in January, according to a report from Irans Civil Aviation Organization. Iran said it mistakenly shot down Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 shortly ...

ISNA Iranian deputy Foreign Minister for International and Legal Affairs, Mohsen Baharvand stressed that Iran is ready to deliver the black box of Ukrainian Boeing 737 for decryption to close the case with the participation of other countries. According to newly received reports, technical investigations in Iran are on their final stages and there ...

Al-Monitor - Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami said the countrys investigation into the accidental shooting down of a passenger plane will be made public. By the strict orders of the commander in chief [Ayatollah Ali Khamenei] and the other heads of the government the dimensions of this bitter incident will be presented to the people, Hatami said ...

Reuters - Ukraines security council said on Thursday it was awaiting a decision on whether Tehran will hand over black boxes of the Ukrainian airliner it downed after an Iranian team presents its report to authorities in Tehran. The security council said experts from Iran, Canada and France have all studied the possibility of decoding the black ...

MNA Iranian Road Minister Mohammad Eslami said on Wednesday that "the black box of the downed Ukrainian plane, as one of the main items of studying the incident, must remain in Iran." He further described that in case of any problems with decoding the black box, required decisions will be made to ask the other involved sides for help. "The black ...

Press TV - Irans civil aviation agency has released its second preliminary investigation report on the accidental shooting downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane near Tehran earlier this month. The report, published by the Civil Aviation OrganizationofIslamic Republic of Iran(CAO.IRI) on Monday, published new data on the status of Ukraine International ...

Reuters - The bodies of the 11 Ukrainian citizens who died when a passenger plane was accidentally shot down by Iran this month were brought back to Ukraine on Sunday in a solemn ceremony at Kiev airport. All 176 on board the Ukraine International Airlines flight from Tehran to Kiev were killed when the Boeing 737-800 was shot down on Jan. 8, at ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met and held talks with his Canadian counterpart Francois-Philippe Champagne in Muscat. According to a statement by the Iranian Foreign Ministry, the meeting was held Friday afternoon at the request of Canada. The Iranian minister once again expressed his deep regrets over the tragic incident ...

Reuters - Five countries whose citizens died when Iran shot down an airliner last week said on Thursday that Tehran should pay compensation to families of the victims, and warned that the world is watching for its response. Canada, Ukraine, Sweden, Afghanistan and Britain said Iran should hold a thorough, independent and transparent international ...

TASS - The Federal Air Transport Agency added that Russian plane crews had not noted any negative factors in the work of the Iranian air control Russian airlines continue to use Irans airspace, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency informed on its website. "Russian airlines continue to use Irans airspace with security measures recommended ...

Tasnim Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, expressed condolences over a Ukrainian airliners crash in northern Iran and stressed the need for a rapid and precise probe into the causes of the incident. In a telephone conversation with Rouhani on Thursday night, Zelensky appreciated the efforts of Iranian ...

MNA Spokesperson for the Iranian Foreign Ministry Abbas Mousavi said Iran has extended invitations to Ukraine and Boeing Co. to participate in the plane crash prove. In a statement on Thursday night, the Foreign Ministry spokesman dismissed the suspicious speculation that the Western media sources have raised about the crash of a Ukrainian passenger ...

RT - Kiev will establish if its airliner, which crashed near Tehran with 176 on board, was hit by a Russian-made missile, collided with a drone, or was targeted by terrorists, a Ukrainian security council official has said. Ukraine has sent dozens of investigators to Iran to look into possible causes of the crash, including an explosion inside the ...

Bloomberg - Iran has invoked an international agreement to get assistance from foreign investigatorsincluding from the U.S.in the investigation of Wednesdays fiery crash of a jetliner near Tehran, according to two people familiar with the matter. Such a move is common in aviation disasters, and gives the country where the plane was produced the ...

TASS - Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky has declared January 9 a day of mourning after a Ukrainian plane crashed in Iran, the presidents office said in a statement after a working meeting on Thursday. "In order to pay tribute to those killed the president ordered to lower Ukrainian national flags at half-mast at houses and buildings of Ukraines ...

The Guardian | Jasper Jolly: Aircraft launched in 1994 can carry 189 passengers and has had some safety issues The Boeing 737-800 model used by Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) that crashed in Tehran on Wednesday is the most popular aircraft in the sky, used by major airlines from Ryanair to American Airlines. Boeings short-haul workhorse ...

ISNA | Rouhollah Vahdati & Borna Ghasemi: A Boeing 737 plane carrying 176 passengers and crew, mostly Iranians, crashed shortly after takeoff from Imam Khomeini Airport in Tehran early Wednesday, leaving no survivors. Technical difficulties were cited as the cause of the crash.      ...