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SLUICE REPORT UPDATE #3: Canadian PM Justin Trudeau has confirmed the evidence show’s the Ukrainian Airliner carrying 176 people was shot down by Iranian forces. 63 of the passengers onboard were Canadian.
BREAKING: Justin Trudeau: “We have intelligence from multiple sources, including our allies and our own intelligence. The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile.”
— ABC News (@ABC) January 9, 2020
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Justin Trudeau: Evidence Shows Ukraine Airliner That Crashed in Iran shows it was shot down by Iranian Surface-to-Air Missile
Via – The Gateway Pundit
An Ukrainian Airlines plane carrying 180 passengers and crew crashed Wednesday morning just minutes after takeoff from Tehran, Iran!
This came on the same night that Iran fired over a dozen missiles at US bases in Iraq.
Al Hadath Dubai News reported a missile took down the Ukrainian flight after the crash on Wednesday.
Al Hadath: Preliminary images of the Ukrainian plane suspected of being hit by an Iranian missile.
Ukrainian officials on Thursday said they want to investigate the crash site for missile parts after images appeared on the internet.
And photos of the Ukrainian flight show shrapnel damage on the wings and fuselage.
Read More From The Gateway Pundit HERE
SLUICE REPORT UPDATE #2: CBS News correspondent Kris Van Cleave is Reporting “US officials are confident Ukrainian Flight 752 was shot Down”
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SLUICE REPORT UPDATE #1: ABC News is also reporting A US Intelligence official is saying it is “Highly Likely” that the Ukrainian airliner was shot down by Iran over Tehran.
The Ukrainian passenger plane that crashed Wednesday morning in Iran, killing all 176 onboard, was “highly likely” shot down by Iran, a U.S. official told ABC News.
According to the U.S. official U.S. intelligence is confident that Iran painted the Ukrainian airliner with radar and fired two surface to air missiles that brought down the aircraft.
The crash occurred about three hours after Iran fired multiple missiles into Iraq, targeting U.S. military sites in what appeared to be retaliation for the recent American drone strike that killed one of Iran’s top generals.
The Ukraine International Airlines flight that crashed after takeoff from Tehran was on fire before it hit the ground, Iran’s aviation regulator said, as the cause of the crash remained unclear and Ukrainian authorities considered the possibility that the plane was hit by a projectile or an explosion.
The Boeing Co. 737-800 single-aisle jet ascended to 8,000 feet before disappearing from radar and crashing, killing all 176 people on board, said Ali Abedzadeh, head of Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization, according to the state news agency. Mr. Abedzadeh said that before crashing, the plane turned around and headed back in the direction of the airport. The jet was aflame as it hit the ground and exploded, he added.
The investigation into the cause of the crash is expected to be one of the most politically thorny probes ever. Tensions are high between the U.S. and Iran over the killing of a top Iranian general. Boeing is already dealing with the fallout from the grounding of its 737 MAX fleet after two fatal crashes involving that jet.
The cause of Wednesday’s crash was unclear, and authorities in Iran and Ukraine pointed to different possible scenarios.
Iran’s minister of roads and urban development, Mohammad Eslami, said the plane suffered a technical fault. “Rumors about the incident being a terrorist attack, explosion or shooting at the plane…are not true,” he said.
But Ukrainian investigators were considering a number of possible versions of events. Those include a strike by an antiaircraft missile, a collision with a drone, an engine explosion or a blast inside the aircraft as a result of a terrorist attack, said Oleksiy Danilov, the head of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, in a Facebook post.
He didn’t mention any evidence pointing to an attack.
A Ukrainian security official cautioned that these were preliminary theories and no conclusions have been reached. “Too many things are unclear at the moment,” the official said. A spokesperson for Ukraine International Airlines declined to comment on “hypotheses.”
A spokesman for Iran’s aviation regulator couldn’t immediately be reached for comment on Mr. Danilov’s statement.
A U.S. official familiar with the matter said Wednesday that data transmitted via satellite indicated that everything was normal on the jetliner until the sudden loss of data and the fatal dive. That data suggest to some U.S. air-safety officials that there may have been some sort of hostile act, said the person, who also cautioned that it was too early to draw conclusions.
Read More From The Wall Street Journal HERE
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— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) January 8, 2020
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There are reports circulating about the Ukrainian Int’l Airlines flight PS752 being shot down shortly after take off from Tehran.
The plane crashed near the city of Shahriar, west of the Iranian capital.
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