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A preliminary report released by the Civil Aviation Organization of Iran showed that the United States has been invited to be part of investigating the fatal crash involving Ukraine International Airlines flight.
TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 (UR-PSR) crashed shortly after take-off from Tehran early in the morning on January 8th with 176 persons on-board.
According to the preliminary report, CAO Iran also invited the authorities of Ukraine, Sweden and Canada as party in the investigation of the flight that was cleared to climb and instructed to contact Mehrabad ATC but radar contact was lost at 8000 feet after take-off.
The report showed that the direction of ground impact indicates that the plane was on its way back to the airport before the crash occurred at 06:18 local time.
The impact occurred in a park and the aircraft disintegrated along a forward trajectory, and an eyewitness on the ground and another flight crew reported a fire on the aircraft
The CVR and FDR, which outer casing had impact and fire damage have been found; and CAO Iran sent formal notification per ICAO Annex 13.
The special working group on the investigation team will focus on explosives.
Initial assessment of Western intelligence agencies is that the Boeing 737-800 which crashed in Iran on Wednesday was not brought down by a missile, said a Canadian security source.
The source, who declined to be identified, said the agencies believed the Boeing 737 plane had suffered a technical malfunction.
A pilot error is unlikely to have caused the crash, Igor Sosnovsky, the vice president of operations at Ukraine International Airlines said on Wednesday.
“We know that the aircraft went to the altitude of 2,400 meters / 7,874 feet. The crew mistake is minimal. We simply do not consider it. Taking into account their experience, it is very hard to say that it could somehow be about the crew. All crew members had enough experience and flight hours,” the vice president said at a briefing.
The flight crew was comprised of 3 pilots: Captain Volodymyr Gaponenko (11600 hours on Boeing 737, including 5500 hours as captain); Instructor pilot Oleksiy Naumkin (12000 hours on Boeing 737, including 6600 hours as captain); First Officer Serhii Khomenko (7600 hours on Boeing 737 aircraft).
The head of Tehran’s civil aviation organization, Ali Abedzadeh had said Iran will not give the black boxes of the crashed Ukrainian 737-800 to Boeing,
Abedzadeh also said it was not clear which country Iran would send the boxes to so that their data could be analyzed, semi-official Mehr news agency reported.
The passenger list includes: Iran – 82, Canada – 63, Ukraine – 2 (+9 crew), Sweden – 10, Afghanistan – 4, Germany – 3, United Kingdom – 3.