Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752

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Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752
UR-PSR (B738) at Ben Gurion Airport.jpg

The misfortune machine in October 2019
Accident summary
Accident type Launch
place near Chalaj Abad in the administrative district of Shahriar , Iran , 35 ° 33 ′ 34 "  N , 51 ° 6 ′ 16"  E Coordinates: 35 ° 33 ′ 34 "  N , 51 ° 6 ′ 16"  EIranIran 
date January 8, 2020
Fatalities 176
Survivors 0
Injured 0
Aircraft
Aircraft type Boeing 737-800
operator Ukraine International Airlines
Mark UR-PSR
Departure airport IranIran Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport
Destination airport UkraineUkraine Kiev Boryspil Airport
Passengers 167
crew 9
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The Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 ( flight number PS752 was) an international scheduled flight from Tehran ( Iran ) to Kiev ( Ukraine ) in the January 8, 2020 Boeing 737-800 of Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) shortly after the Launch was shot down by two Iranian anti-aircraft missiles . There were no survivors among the 167 passengers and 9 crew members.

Course of events

The plane was scheduled to take off from Tehran's Imam Khomeini Airport at 05:15 local time (02:45 CET) and land at Kiev Boryspil Airport at 08:00 local time (07:00 CET) . According to a preliminary report by the Iranian civil aviation authority, the plane took off at 6:13 a.m. local time with a delay of around an hour. Following the regular departure route, it rose continuously up to 8,000  ft (approx. 2,400  m ) before contact with air traffic control was lost at 06:18 local time and the aircraft disappeared from the radar . The plane crashed from this height , i.e. from around 1400 meters above ground at an altitude of the airport above mean sea level of around 1000 meters. According to Ali Abedzadeh, head of the Iranian civil aviation authority, the pilots did not make an emergency call.

According to the updated interim report of the Iranian Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau dated January 20, 2020, there was an experienced crew on board the aircraft: the 50-year-old flight captain had 11,600 flight hours, including 5,469 on the Boeing 737, the 42-year-old pilot instructor one of 12,000 flight hours , of which 6600 on the Boeing 737 and the 48-year-old first officer one of 7600 flight hours, of which 3642 on the Boeing 737. The flight experience figures of the cockpit crew were published by Ukraine International Airlines on the afternoon of the day of the crash, linked to the note that the company did not consider the possibility of pilot error due to the experience of the crew.

plane

The machine is a Boeing 737-800 with the air vehicle registration UR-PSR and the serial number 38,124th She had last been serviced its first flight on June 21, 2016. The president of the airline, according to the plane was on January 6, 2020 and was in perfect condition. As a result of the accident, all UIA aircraft are now being carefully checked again.

examination

The scene of the accident on the day of the crash, Laleh Park in Khalaj Abad, Shahriar District in Tehran Province, Iran

Recovery and evaluation of the black boxes

The data and voice recorders were recovered on the day of the crash. The Iranian civil aviation authority informed the authorities of the operating country (Ukraine), the manufacturer's country (USA) and the victims' countries of origin (Sweden, Canada and Afghanistan) responsible under ICAO Annex 13 and invited them to participate in the accident investigation. After initially refusing to hand over the flight recorder, Iran asked Boeing to be part of the investigation team and invited Boeing experts from the USA, Canada and France to join the investigation. Ukraine also sent a team of investigators.

On August 23, 2020, the civil aviation authority of Iran announced that flight data recorders and voice recorders could be read without technical difficulties and that all aircraft systems were functioning normally until the first rocket explosion and that a pilot could be heard giving instructions after the explosion the other pilots gave. After the first missile meeting, the two recording devices would have worked for another 19 seconds. This contradicts initial assumptions that the pilots would have died immediately, and the attempt to explain why no emergency call was made.

On August 24, 2020, the Iranian Aircraft Accident Investigation Authority published a report on the readout of the flight recorders in English and Persian, in which - contrary to the statement made by the Iranian civil aviation authority on the previous day - it is stated that the flight data recorder was recorded immediately at the time of the first The explosion broke off, but the voice recorder worked for another 19 seconds and the recording could be heard as the three pilots took measures to keep the aircraft under control immediately after the detonation of the first warhead. The conversations recorded after the first rocket explosion did not reveal any evidence of any injuries or health problems of the cockpit crew. You could hear the pilot instructor finding that the engines were still working and how the pilots decided to start the auxiliary engine . With regard to the state of the passenger cabin, nothing can be derived from the recorded noises.

First Iranian statement and international reactions

Shortly after the crash, the Iranian state television spoke of a technical defect as a possible cause of the crash, this assumption was followed by the preliminary report by the Iranian civil aviation authority. Foreign media reported, citing the US military and US intelligence services, about the possibility of an accidental shooting down by the Iranian air defense. On the same night at 1:20 a.m. local time (10:50 p.m. CET), in response to the targeted killing of senior Iranian officer Qasem Soleimani by the United States on January 3, 2020, Iran launched several rocket attacks on the two US bases in Al Asad Airbase and Erbil running in Iraq. According to experts, the Iranian air defense was on high alert in fear of an American counter-attack.

Evidence of launch

According to information from the American media on January 9, which in turn cited an employee of the Pentagon and an employee of the Iraqi secret service , "the signals from a switched-on radar of an anti-aircraft missile have been picked up". US satellites detected the launch of two surface-to-air missiles. The United States Central Command declined to comment. Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed that Canadian intelligence also had evidence of a missile launch. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson also said he had “very worrying reports”. One day after the crash, Bellingcat and independently the New York Times published a video in which a luminous point entering the picture from the left, a flash in the center of the picture with an explosion sound delayed due to the speed of sound and a subsequent luminous trail that appears in moving in the opposite direction could be seen. Bellingcat interpreted the first tracer from the left as an anti-aircraft missile, the flash as an explosion and the following tracer, moving from right to left, as the burning Boeing 737.

The remains of the tip of a 9M330 anti-aircraft missile were reportedly photographed near the crash site; the photos spread through social media . However, it has not yet been proven that the photos come from the crash site or from Iran at all. The 29 Iranian anti-aircraft missile systems of this type were procured by Russia between 2007 and 2018.

On January 14, the New York Times published another video from a surveillance camera showing that the Boeing 737 was attacked by two anti-aircraft missiles. This explains the break in contact caused by the explosion of the first missile about 23 seconds before the explosion of the second missile, which was seen in the first published video.

Admission of the shooting down by Iran

On January 11th, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards took responsibility for the crash. The plane was accidentally shot down as a result of human error by a unit of the Revolutionary Guards , and apologies were made. The aircraft was mistakenly mistaken for a cruise missile , the officer in charge could not reach the command center due to a malfunction in the communications system and then decided to shoot it down. However, the fact is no justification, it was an unforgivable mistake.

Two missile hits

According to the accident experts, a missile struck directly below the cockpit. The Iranian Aircraft Accident Investigation Board was informed on January 20, 2020 that two TOR-M1 anti-aircraft missiles had been fired at the aircraft.

Victim

The flight of the Ukrainian company was mainly used by Iranians who wanted to travel to Canada. Since 2012, when Canada severed diplomatic relations with Iran, there have been no direct flight connections between the two countries. 138 passengers should have flown from Kiev to Canada. The Ukrainian and Iranian authorities provide different information on the nationalities of the victims. The Iranian authorities relied on the passports that were used to leave the country. According to Iran, 147 people are said to come from Iran; thus 65 passengers would have dual citizenship. Canada corrected the aforementioned number of Canadian victims from 63 to 57.

Among the Ukrainian victims are the three pilots and six flight attendants. Two other passengers had booked but did not take the flight. Four of the dead had lived in Germany: an Iranian woman from Tehran was a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz , a 30-year-old Afghan woman lived with her eight and five-year-old children as recognized asylum seekers in Werl . Two Iranians who had died, a doctoral student from ETH Zurich and his partner, lived in Switzerland .

Reactions

Celebration in memory of the victims of the Ukraine International Airlines plane crash in the Islamic Republic of Iran

Ukraine

  • After the crash, the Ukrainian airline canceled all flights between Kiev and Tehran until further notice.
  • After the Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj learned of the accident, he broke off a stay abroad in Oman and, on his return, ordered an investigation into the crash and an inspection of all civil aircraft in Ukraine. He also called on the public to refrain from speculating about the plane crash. On January 9, Zelenskyj declared state mourning for Ukraine . In a telephone conversation between Iranian presidents Hassan Rouhani and Zelenskyi on January 11, initiated by the Iranian side, Rouhani apologized for the "tragedy" and, after Zelenskyi had demanded that those responsible be punished and that Iran be paid compensation, he would bring all involved to court deliver. According to the Ukrainian Prime Minister Oleksiy Honcharuk , the Ukrainian state and the airline intend to pay the families of the bereaved 200,000 hryvnias per family, which corresponds to about 7500 euros and 8100 Swiss francs respectively .

Iran

  • Due to an "unclear assessment of the security situation for the airspace around the airport" in Tehran, Lufthansa and Austrian Airlines allowed their aircraft to return to Frankfurt and Vienna as a precaution on January 9, 2020 on the way to Tehran and canceled all flights Tehran until January 20th. Shortly before this period expired, the two airlines announced that they would not fly into or via Iran until the end of March.
  • The Iranian government's belated admission sparked protests in several cities across the country. The protesters demanded the resignation of all leaders involved.

See also

Web links

Commons : Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752  - collection of images

Individual evidence

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