The crash could also touch a nerve politically in Ukraine, as Ukraine International Airlines is partly owned through a network of offshore companies by Ihor Kolomoisky. Mr. Kolomoisky is an oligarch with close ties to President Volodymyr Zelensky.
— Read on archive.is/Iitzm
See how many times it “changed” AKA updated.
Ukrainian passenger jet crashes in Iran, all 179 on board dead
— Read on www.presstv.com/Detail/2020/01/08/615629/Iran-Ukraine-plane
“We will not give the black boxes to the manufacturer (Boeing) and the Americans,” Iran Civil Aviation Organization head Ali Abedzadeh said, quoted by Mehr news agency.
“It’s not yet clear which country the black box will go to for the investigation,” he added.
Following the crash of Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 shortly after takeoff from Tehran on Wednesday, Iran said it had recovered the Boeing 737’s two black boxes.
Abedzadeh said that based on global aviation rules, it was the right of the country where air crashes occur to carry out the investigation.
UK Reuter’s:
Iran will not give the black box of the crashed Ukrainian airliner to planemaker Boeing, the head of Tehran’s civil aviation organisation was quoted as saying on Wednesday.
An Iranian official said a fire struck one of the plane’s engines shortly after takeoff and the pilot then lost control.
— Read on web.archive.org/web/20200108114710/https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-nw-iran-ukraine-plane-crash-20200108-kuhhygyr55a6bncq5nmo4po4jm-story.html
The Boeing 737-800 is a very common single-aisle, twin-engine jetliner used for short to medium-range flights. Thousands of the planes are used by airlines around the world.
Introduced in the late 1990s, it is an older model than the Boeing 737 MAX, which has been grounded for nearly 10 months following two deadly crashes. Boeing built the aircraft that crashed Wednesday in 2016 and it last underwent routine maintenance on Monday, Ukraine International Airlines said.
A number of 737-800 aircraft have been involved in deadly accidents over the years.
In March 2016, a FlyDubai 737-800 from Dubai crashed while trying to land at Rostov-on-Don airport in Russia, killing 62 onboard. Another 737-800 flight from Dubai, operated by Air India Express, crashed in May 2010 while trying to land in Mangalore, India, killing more than 150 onboard.
Such 737-800s have been the subject of inspections since last year after airlines started reporting cracks in a part that keeps wings attached to the fuselage. Boeing said in October that airlines around the world had inspected 810 planes following an order from U.S. safety regulators. Of those, 38 planes — or 5% — had needed repairs, Boeing said at the time. It is not unusual for regulators to require inspections of a specific component or area for planes that have been in service a long time.
Chicago-based Boeing Co. was “aware of the media reports out of Iran and we are gathering more information,” spokesman Michael Friedman told the AP.
There have been no further details so far concerning possible casualties in the accident. An investigation team is reportedly at the scene.
— Read on sputniknews.com/world/202001081077972853-boeing-737-with-180-aboard-crashes-after-take-off-from-tehran-airport—reports/
“The US has caused war, division, sedition, destruction, and the demolition of infrastructures in this region. Of course they do this everywhere in the world. This region won’t accept the US presence. Governments elected by nations won’t accept the presence of the US,” he noted.
— Read on ifpnews.com/us-presence-in-middle-east-must-end-iran-leader
Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said his country’s Wednesday missile attacks on Ein Al-Assad falls under the rules of the UN Charter, reminding that Iran has hit the airbase that has been used as the launchpad for assassinating Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.
— Read on en.farsnews.com/newstext.aspx
Iran Strikes Back! Daniel McAdams talks to RT
01.07.2020
Ron Paul Institute
Iran fires missiles at at least two US bases in Iraq! What is next? RPI Director Daniel McAdams in an extensive interview as the dramatic events of tonight unfold of Iranian retaliation in Iraq for the US assassination of top anti-ISIS Iranian General Qassim Soleimani. Will Trump’s embrace of the neocons cost him a second term?
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“A meeting with a foreign leader in the Oval Office should … be on the public schedule with a read-out.”
— Read on www.axios.com/whca-disturbing-saudi-arabia-oval-office-meeting-cbfa9603-532d-40a6-82cb-405d5388392d.html
So both Israel and Saudi Arabia are backing away?!
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