Reuters - A Ukrainian airliner that crashed shortly after take-off from Tehran on Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board, was on fire immediately prior to the incident, according to an initial report by investigators. The report, by Irans civil aviation organisation, cited witnesses on the ground and in a passing aircraft flying at high altitude ...

Tasnim Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei issued a message of condolence on the deaths of scores of people during the funeral of Lt. General Qassem Soleimani in Kerman and in a plane crash near Tehran. In the message on Wednesday, Ayatollah Khamenei described the bitter and saddening deaths at the funeral of General Soleimani ...

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.      ...

IRNA - Iran Civil Aviation Organization said on Wednesday that 147 passengers on board of the crashed Boeing 737 plane were Iranians and 32 passengers were foreigners. All 179 passengers died when a Ukrainian plane Boeing 737 crashed in southern Tehran Wednesday morning after its engine caught fire. All the 167 passengers and nine crew members ...

MNA - A Boeing 737 belonging to Ukraine International Airlines has crashed due to technical problems after take-off from Iran's Imam Khomeini airport with 170 passengers and crew on board. The airplane took off from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport and headed to Ukrainian capital city Kyiv. Following the incident, all flights from and ...