Ukraine wants Iran to hand over black boxes from the plane that was shot down by Iranian forces on Jan. 8 near Tehran. Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko told reporters that he would bring up the issue when meeting in Kiev with Mohammad Eslami, Iran’s minister of roads and urban development. Eslami was there to […]

Iran officials acknowledged Saturday that they accidentally shot down a Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed earlier this week, killing all 176 people aboard. Gen Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard’s aerospace division, told state TV that his unit accepts “full responsibility” for shooting the down aircraft minutes after it took off Wednesday from […]

Ukrainian Foreign Minister Vadym Prystaiko said on Jan. 10 that his country’s investigators have been given access to the flight data recorders that were recovered from the wreckage of a Ukrainian plane that went down in Iran, killing all 176 people on board. “Our team has gained access to the ‘black boxes’, we plan to […]

Iran has changed its story about what caused a Boeing 737 operated by Ukrainian International Airlines to plunge out of the sky minutes after taking off from the airport in Tehran. After initially blaming mechanical malfunctions for the crash, a version of events that was almost instantly refuted by video footage, experts and the airline […]

In the aftermath of Ukraine Airlines Flight 752 exploding and crashing just north of Tehran airport, the Iranian government is refusing to turn-over the black box flight data recorders recovered from the crash site. Combined with the timing and location, their refusal is leading to increased speculation the flight may have accidentally been targeted by […]