It was on January 8 this year that the Ukrainian international passenger plane Flight 752, which had just taken off from Tehran International Airport, was shot down over Iranian airspace. All 176 passengers on board were killed and the Iranian authorities first denied any involvement.
On board the plane were 17 people resident in Sweden, of which seven had Swedish passports and ten were registered in Sweden.
It later turned out that the plane was hit by two missiles fired by mistake, as a result of tensions with the United States. That after the United States killed the Iranian top general Qassem Soleimani a few days earlier.
Passengers alive after the first missileSix months later, an analysis of the black box now shows that it took 25 seconds between the first and second missile hitting the plane, reports Reuters.
A conversation between the pilots caught in the cockpit also indicates that passengers were alive after the first hit.
- 19 seconds after the first missile hit the plane, the pilots' voices inside the cockpit indicate that passengers were alive. 25 seconds later, the second missile hits the plane, said Touraj Dehghani-Zanganeh, a spokesman for the country's civil aviation organization, which has investigated the incident.
According to the AP, what the pilots said in the audio recording that was secured after the black box was sent to France for analysis earlier in June is not stated. On the other hand, it is stated that splinters entered the plane at the first hit and that recording equipment was disturbed.