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Plane crash near Tehran

Plane crash near Tehran

2020, 2 min

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On January 8, 2020, a Boeing 737-800 of Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) crashed during a flight from Tehran to Kyiv. As a result of this tragedy, all 176 people on board, representatives of different countries, died. At first, Iran suggested that the plane had technical malfunctions, but later admitted that it was the result of an inadvertent shelling by the Iranian military.

The video shows: the airport, people, a briefing by UIA representatives, journalists, the Boryspil hotel, cars.

Interview with Valery Matkov - father of one of those who died in the plane crash, Oleksandr Shafiev - technical director of UIA, Igor Sosnovsky - vice president of UIA.