Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 lifted off from Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport at 6:12 a.m. local time Wednesday — almost an hour late.
The regularly scheduled trip to Kyiv was supposed to take just under four hours. But something went disastrously wrong for the Boeing 737-800 within minutes.
Tracking data suggests the flight climbed to just over 2,400 metres and reached a speed of 500 km/h before it plunged back to earth, crashing near a soccer field and irrigation canal outside the town of Parand, about 30 kilometres northwest of the airport
Video broadcast by Iranian state TV shows what purports to be the final moments of the flight, with flames coming from an aircraft, then a blinding flash lighting up the pre-dawn darkness as the plane carrying nine crew and 167 passengers — 63 Canadians among them — slams into the ground.
By the time the sun rose, an hour later, the search for survivors had already been abandoned.
The plane, fully loaded with fuel for a 2,300-kilometreflight, exploded on impact. Footage from the scene shows smoldering piles of debris scattered across a wide area.
Read more: Radio silence and a desperate turn: The final moments of Flight PS752 | CBC News
The regularly scheduled trip to Kyiv was supposed to take just under four hours. But something went disastrously wrong for the Boeing 737-800 within minutes.
Tracking data suggests the flight climbed to just over 2,400 metres and reached a speed of 500 km/h before it plunged back to earth, crashing near a soccer field and irrigation canal outside the town of Parand, about 30 kilometres northwest of the airport
Video broadcast by Iranian state TV shows what purports to be the final moments of the flight, with flames coming from an aircraft, then a blinding flash lighting up the pre-dawn darkness as the plane carrying nine crew and 167 passengers — 63 Canadians among them — slams into the ground.
By the time the sun rose, an hour later, the search for survivors had already been abandoned.
The plane, fully loaded with fuel for a 2,300-kilometreflight, exploded on impact. Footage from the scene shows smoldering piles of debris scattered across a wide area.
Read more: Radio silence and a desperate turn: The final moments of Flight PS752 | CBC News
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