Iran's final report blames air defence operator error for Ukraine plane crash


  • World
  • Thursday, 18 Mar 2021

FILE PHOTO: Soldiers carry a coffin containing the remains of one of the eleven Ukrainian victims of the Ukraine International Airlines flight 752 plane disaster, at Boryspil International Airport, outside Kiev, Ukraine, January 19, 2020. Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS

DUBAI (Reuters) - Iran's civil aviation body blamed a misaligned radar and an error by an air defence operator in a final report into the shooting-down of a Ukrainian passenger plane in January 2020 that killed all 176 people aboard.

The report on Wednesday into the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 "makes no attempt to answer critical questions about what truly happened and appears incomplete," Canada said in a statement.

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