Those who witnessed the crash of the Boeing 737-800 described the last seconds of the plane as something that looks like a fireball in the sky. The shattered parts of the plane spread across the field.
Yevhenii Dykhne who is the Ukrainian International Airlines President expressed that the unfortunate incident couldn’t possibly be a result of mistakes on the part of the crew members.
He further stated that both the captain of the plane and instructor pilot are highly experienced. Volodymyr Gaponenko the captain on Boeing 737-800 and Oleksiy Naumkin the instructor pilot has 11, 600 and 12000 hours on the aircraft respectively.
US officials have also shared sentiments that the crash may have been piloted by Iranian forces who might have shot down the plane. Iran, however, debunked all of this and associated the cause to technical faults.
Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau also pointed out that all evidence suggests Iranian forces shot down the Boeing 737-800 with 176 people leaving no survivors.
Although there is a rule put in place that in every investigation of a plane crash, the makers of the plane possess every right to be involved, Boeing in this case, an American company.
Iran has stated that they won’t give things that would serve as important evidence to the crash to the Americans or the manufacturers.
At the moment, no one knows the real cause of the crash as the investigation is still on-going. This happens a few days before the new Boeing CEO sets to take office and right in the midst of the stalemate between the United States and Iran.
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