Breaking News U.S. Believes Ukraine Plane Was Shot Down by Iran: U.S. Official U.S. Has ‘High Level of Confidence’ in Assessment, Official Says Plane Was Downed by Two Iranian Missiles: Official
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Officials probing what happened to a Boeing Co. 737-800 aircraft that crashed in Iran shortly after takeoff offered differing potential scenarios, including the possibility the plane was on fire before it hit the ground or was hit by a projectile.
Investigators on Thursday were in the early stages of trying to determine what downed the Ukraine International Airlines flight, killing all 176 people on board. The probe is expected to be particularly thorny, with heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran over the killing of a top Iranian generallikely to complicate international cooperation. Iranian officials, quoted by the state news agency, said the plane had suffered a technical fault, that it had started to turn back in the direction of Tehran airport and was already on fire before it hit the ground. They said the jet had reached 8,000 feet before disappearing from radar Wednesday.
Ukrainian officials said they were considering a number of possible scenarios, although cautioned they were only preliminary theories at this stage. Those include a strike by an antiaircraft missile, a collision with a drone, an engine explosion or a blast inside the aircraft as a result of a terrorist attack. No evidence was given for a potential attack. A spokesman for Ukraine International Airlines declined to comment on “hypotheses.” A U.S. official familiar with the matter said Wednesday that data transmitted via satellite indicated everything was normal on the jetliner until the sudden loss of data and the fatal dive. That data suggest to some U.S. air-safety officials that there may have been some sort of hostile act, said the person, who also cautioned that it was too early to draw conclusions.
The crash came hours after Iran launched missile attacks on U.S. troops at two Iraqi bases in retaliation for the killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The timing of those attacks raised questions about whether the Ukrainian airliner was downed by a projectile.
The last high-profile shootdown of a commercial airliner occurred in eastern Ukraine in 2014, when pro-Russian separatists battling the central government downed a Malaysian plane with a surface-to-air missile. All 298 people on board the Boeing 777 died.
A team of 45 Ukrainian experts and officials arrived in Tehran early Thursday and will be involved in decoding the plane’s black boxes and identifying and repatriating bodies. The team had already collected DNA samples from relatives of the victims in Ukraine.
“The priority for Ukraine is to establish the causes of the crash,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Ukraine said Mr. Zelensky spoke by phone with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who pledged full cooperation in the investigation, including sharing all data with Ukrainian officials on the ground in Tehran.
However, it isn’t clear how much access U.S. investigators will get to the crash site. Iran’s Mr. Rezaifar said the probe would be conducted to international standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization.
That would indicate U.S. companies and entities could be involved. However, Ali Abedzadeh, head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization, told the semiofficial Mehr News Agency on Wednesday that his organization wouldn’t provide Boeing or the U.S. access to the black box.
Based on the International Civil Aviation Organization’s convention, the home country of the airline and the makers of the plane and its major systems are each entitled to appoint a representative to participate in crash probes.
Boeing has said it is in contact with Ukraine International Airlines and is ready to assist in any way. Determining what went wrong is critical to the plane maker, which already is dealing with the grounding of its best-selling 737 MAX fleet after two fatal crashes involving that jet.
Corrections & Amplifications
An earlier version of this article misspelled engine maker CFM as CRM. (Jan. 9, 2020) The plane that crashed, a 737-800, is the most popular version of the aerospace giant’s workhorse jet. The model and its variants account for around 25% of all commercial jetliners in operation, enjoying one of the industry’s best safety records.
加拿大总理杜鲁道（Justin Trudeau）今天说，加拿大从多个来源得到的情资显示，在伊朗首都德黑兰附近坠机的乌克兰客机是遭伊朗误击。
杜鲁道在记者会上表示：「我们由多个来源获得情报，其中包括我们的盟友及自身的情报机关。证据显示，这架飞机被伊朗地对空飞弹击落。」
「很有可能是无意间造成的。」
这架客机上共有176人，包含63名加拿大人及11名乌克兰人，8日起飞后很快就坠落，无人生还。悲剧发生前不久，伊朗对美军驻扎的伊拉克基地发射飞弹。
U.S. Believes Ukraine Plane Was Shot Down by Iran: U.S. Official
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Breaking News
U.S. Believes Ukraine Plane Was Shot Down by Iran: U.S. Official
U.S. Has ‘High Level of Confidence’ in Assessment, Official Says
Plane Was Downed by Two Iranian Missiles: Official
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Officials probing what happened to a Boeing Co. 737-800 aircraft that crashed in Iran shortly after takeoff offered differing potential scenarios, including the possibility the plane was on fire before it hit the ground or was hit by a projectile.
Investigators on Thursday were in the early stages of trying to determine what downed the Ukraine International Airlines flight, killing all 176 people on board. The probe is expected to be particularly thorny, with heightened tensions between the U.S. and Iran over the killing of a top Iranian generallikely to complicate international cooperation.
Iranian officials, quoted by the state news agency, said the plane had suffered a technical fault, that it had started to turn back in the direction of Tehran airport and was already on fire before it hit the ground. They said the jet had reached 8,000 feet before disappearing from radar Wednesday.
Ukrainian officials said they were considering a number of possible scenarios, although cautioned they were only preliminary theories at this stage. Those include a strike by an antiaircraft missile, a collision with a drone, an engine explosion or a blast inside the aircraft as a result of a terrorist attack.
No evidence was given for a potential attack. A spokesman for Ukraine International Airlines declined to comment on “hypotheses.”
A U.S. official familiar with the matter said Wednesday that data transmitted via satellite indicated everything was normal on the jetliner until the sudden loss of data and the fatal dive. That data suggest to some U.S. air-safety officials that there may have been some sort of hostile act, said the person, who also cautioned that it was too early to draw conclusions.
The crash came hours after Iran launched missile attacks on U.S. troops at two Iraqi bases in retaliation for the killing of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani. The timing of those attacks raised questions about whether the Ukrainian airliner was downed by a projectile.
The last high-profile shootdown of a commercial airliner occurred in eastern Ukraine in 2014, when pro-Russian separatists battling the central government downed a Malaysian plane with a surface-to-air missile. All 298 people on board the Boeing 777 died.
A team of 45 Ukrainian experts and officials arrived in Tehran early Thursday and will be involved in decoding the plane’s black boxes and identifying and repatriating bodies. The team had already collected DNA samples from relatives of the victims in Ukraine.
“The priority for Ukraine is to establish the causes of the crash,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. Ukraine said Mr. Zelensky spoke by phone with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who pledged full cooperation in the investigation, including sharing all data with Ukrainian officials on the ground in Tehran.
However, it isn’t clear how much access U.S. investigators will get to the crash site. Iran’s Mr. Rezaifar said the probe would be conducted to international standards set by the International Civil Aviation Organization.
That would indicate U.S. companies and entities could be involved. However, Ali Abedzadeh, head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization, told the semiofficial Mehr News Agency on Wednesday that his organization wouldn’t provide Boeing or the U.S. access to the black box.
Based on the International Civil Aviation Organization’s convention, the home country of the airline and the makers of the plane and its major systems are each entitled to appoint a representative to participate in crash probes.
Boeing has said it is in contact with Ukraine International Airlines and is ready to assist in any way. Determining what went wrong is critical to the plane maker, which already is dealing with the grounding of its best-selling 737 MAX fleet after two fatal crashes involving that jet.
Corrections & Amplifications
An earlier version of this article misspelled engine maker CFM as CRM. (Jan. 9, 2020) The plane that crashed, a 737-800, is the most popular version of the aerospace giant’s workhorse jet. The model and its variants account for around 25% of all commercial jetliners in operation, enjoying one of the industry’s best safety records.
我问过我的以前的以色列同学， 你们那里安全吗？ 他说安全。
他每年都去好几次， 高中毕业后还在那里呆了一年， 所以我觉得他没说假话。
以色列对恐怖分子，铁血无情， 才换来的国家和人民的生命财产的安全。
看来是关系紧张以后，军队过于敏感了。当年美国不也在波斯湾大摆乌龙，打下来一架伊朗客机。
by mistake
看起来伊朗军队素质堪忧啊，自己机场起刚刚起飞没几分钟的民航都认不出来。
当年美国军舰飞不清空客300和美国制造的F-14战斗机也是够奇葩的，不过那个事情美国人可以赖伊朗战斗机和民航用同一个机场，现在伊朗这个自家起场起飞的总不可能是美国飞机吧。
伊朗被制裁那么多年,军队也没啥钱,将军死了,军心慌乱. 之前死的那个将军下葬还踩死好多人,真是乱.
摩萨德可是跟克格勃起名的，巨不好惹的。
许多人猜测，可能是人为的，也可能是启动了什么系统，系统自动狙杀了。如果真的打下来，误杀的可能远远大于故意。
没有美国人伤亡，老川肯定不想管。刚过了这一波，哪个国家都不想再起争端吧。这件事情估计就混过去了。就看乌克兰，加拿大等怎么说了。
伊朗刚“报复”完，不确定美国会不会反击，全军高度戒备中。
结果雷达员把波音大客机，看错成了美国B-52轰炸首都德黑兰，吓得屁滚尿流，赶紧一阵乱射，坏事了。
看之前的报导很多家庭是在加拿大生活的，应该是乘着寒假/新年假期回去探亲吧
我欧洲同事说他们每次去以色列都是全程有持枪保镖陪同的。不晓得是不是整个以色列都是这样
澳大利亚怎么现在不可以了？
没有保镖，但以色列到处都是带枪的军人，也可能是民兵，都没有穿制服的年轻人。边境地区逛个商场也要安检的。我们在以色列旅游做长途巴士，前面一排都带着枪，在约旦边境的小城走几步都能碰到几个这样的年轻人，反而很有安全感。
国内一帮子脑残粉红，要是美帝干的，伊朗会立马就说技术故障，还不闹翻天了
主流媒体：小土豆 didn't rush to confrontation！
其中138人在乌克兰转机到加拿大，所以说说加拿大飞机也不为过。
以小土豆的尿性，不归咎于美国算不错了
有史以来第一次啊第一次，华人上的粉毛没有敢和国内一样脑残，比国内的人品或者智商高了一丢丢！
澳洲被tg染红的最厉害，澳洲盛产伪类
你这么一说我觉得有道理，我认识一个在澳洲的网友，一起打游戏的，他就说不喜欢西方文化传统意识形态什么的，喜欢中国的，然后说ccp对中国贡献很大，经济很好，最近也在努力纠正以往的问题。。。就跟板上粉红的论调差不多。我就奇怪他从哪里看出“努力纠正以往的问题”，明明二次文革都开始了！
你就问他最简单的一个问题： 既然在纠正过去的问题，那么请问“过往的问题”到底是什么。怎么纠正暂且不说。
其实都是看在钱的份上，所以美国要打贸易战卡中共的钱袋子。
美国人疯了这个时候去伊朗。
good one不过当时他不让我说，说反正你不喜欢，不说了不说了，打游戏先
他们纠正问题的办法就是不承认有问题
要是美国人找就被抓了. 还可以上飞机...
老头上次刚刚换了一个美籍华人回来.
一棒子脑残记者，波斯缠头打的去骂川普
他是胡子没刮?应该是新造型吧……a little try too hard…
这才是一点逻辑都没有。。这是缠头发射导弹几个小时后，波斯缠头在焦急的等待美帝是不是还击，看到个飞机吓得当成b52你的懂吗？
客机比战斗机大很多， 雷达能分辨的很清楚， 战斗机速度也快非常多， 非常多啊。
你在搞笑。 一看就不了解澳洲的。
澳洲是世界上最反华的国家之一。
美国禁华为之后，澳洲是第一个跳出来响应美国禁华为的， 而且澳洲各大媒体动不动就煽动中国入侵，
前不久才编造了假新闻，说中国已经买下了澳洲大部分土地。
害的澳洲官方不得不拿出数据，证明中国相关者购买的澳洲土地非常小。；
澳洲属于 政治上倾美，经济上依赖中国。大量的煤铁资源出口中国，而且依赖中国留学生。
你对于缠头智商的理解这么美好？lol
连我们大妈们都知道buliers pick easy target。
我也觉得他们可能不是非常能干聪明， 但他们买了很多设备， 不是还有华为的， 那些设备应该还是挺好用的。
这些人死的太冤了， 如果是事故还好一些， 如果是故意的， 家属应该知道真相。
这个版估计很多人没听过这事 只知道张嘴闭嘴五毛