Tehran: Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization has said that the Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran on January 8, was hit by two short-range TOR-M1 missiles, it was reported on Tuesday.
“Two TOR-M1 missiles were launched from the northern side at this plane,” the state media said in a report citing the latest report by the Organization.
“The way how the missiles caused the incident and the analysis of this measure is under study,” Xinhua news agency quoted the report as saying.
With 167 passengers and nine crew members on board, the Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashed outside Tehran’s Imam Khomeini International Airport on January 8, shortly after take-off
Three days later, Iran’s armed forces confirmed that the airliner was shot down “unintentionally” by the military, as the plane “was mistaken for a hostile target” near a “sensitive military site of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC)”.(IANS)