176 Dead Include 63 Canadians, Three Brits After Boeing 737 Crashes in Iran – IOTW Report

176 Dead Include 63 Canadians, Three Brits After Boeing 737 Crashes in Iran

Iran Refuses to Hand over Black Boxes from Crashed Ukrainian Passenger Jet.


Breitbart:

Three British citizens and 63 Canadians are said to be among the dead after a Ukranian passenger flight crashed minutes after departing from an airport in Iran, just hours after the rogue regime conducted missile strikes against American military targets in Iraq.

A total of 176 people died after a Ukranian owned Boeing 737 crashed just eight minutes after taking off from Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran in the early hours of Wednesday morning, killing everyone on board. According to the Ukranian minister for foreign affairs, the victims by nationality were 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, 11 Ukrainians including the nine crew, ten Swedish, four Afghans, three Germans, and three British.

The Ukranian embassy in Iran initially blamed engine failure for the crash and denied any terrorist involvement, however, the embassy later retracted the statement saying that all options are being considered, reports The Telegraph.

“A commission is working to clarify the causes of the plane crash. Any statements regarding the causes of the accident prior to the findings of the commission are not official”, the embassy said in a statement.

Ali Abedzadeh, the chief of Tehran’s civil aviation organisation said that Iran will not hand over the plane’s black box to Boeing, according to Reuters.

In response to reports of engine failure, Ukrainian International Airlines (UIA) who operated the Boeing 737 aircraft said that there was “nothing wrong” with the plane, which is reported to have been serviced two days prior to the crash and was under four years old. read more

13 Comments on 176 Dead Include 63 Canadians, Three Brits After Boeing 737 Crashes in Iran

  1. It is my understanding that the 63 Canadians called were “Iranian-Canadians”, dual nationals. I am SO against dual citizenship. In my book, you “either is or you ain’t”. There were problems with dual citizens from Lebanon, during Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s government. Lebanon was once again in one of its many wars and so these dual Canadians had to be air-lifted back to Canada at a very great expense. They are only Canadians to get our health care and to give grandma a home. They would much rather live in the warm Mediterrean climate of Lebanon (except when a war is happening).

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  2. The Iranians shot it down after the realized it was full of all those crafty Canadians. They finally figured out how those Americans slipped away from them forty-four years ago. They saw the movie “Argo” on Netflix and decided they couldn’t let the Canadians pull off another escape.

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  3. Some missle site commander got all excited while shagging his favorite goat, looked up on his radar screen and saw a blip exceeding the normal airspeed of commercial flights, as the pilot was trying to get the f**k out of a missle zone, punched a launch button, then went back to finish his shagging, not realizing until too late that he should have finished his shagging and then identified the target before hitting the launch button. His goat paid a heavy price for being responsible for all the deaths, aloha snackbar!!!!

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  4. Big Momma – thanks for the clarification. I’m with you. I don’t understand why the U.S. even allows dual citizenship. How does one pledge allegiance to the U.S. and to another country? Not possible, as far as I know.

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  5. There’s a vacation that should get some space in the travel mags:

    Three Perfect Days in Teheran (these magazines always dictate what you must do): visit the grave of the Allatoyah, take part in a stoning, see a public hanging, throw an infidel off a building. Teheran, there’s no place quite like it in the world!

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