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Financial Times: Ukraine investigators to probe causes of deadly Iran plane crash

By Financial Times.

Published Jan. 9, 2020 at 4:37 pm

TV journalists stand amid the wreckage after a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 passengers crashed near Imam Khomeini airport in the Iranian capital Tehran early in the morning on January 8, 2020, killing everyone on board. - The Boeing 737 had left Tehran's international airport bound for Kyiv, semi-official news agency ISNA said, adding that 10 ambulances were sent to the crash site. (Photo by - / AFP)

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Ukrainian officials are investigating whether the deadly crash of a Kyiv-bound passenger jet in Iran which killed 176 people could have been caused by a missile or terrorist attack.

Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security Council, said on Thursday that Kyiv was negotiating with Iran to allow its experts access to the site south-west of Tehran where the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed minutes after take-off early on Jan. 8.