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The staff of the Iranian armed forces recognized this Saturday, January 11 that a "human error" was at the origin of the catastrophe of the Boeing 737-800 of Ukraine International Airlines which claimed the lives of 176 people.
The Ukrainian International Airlines plane which crashed in Iran on Wednesday flew over an area near a sensitive military site belonging to the Revolutionary Guards and was accidentally shot down due to human error, said the Iranian army on Saturday.
The aircraft crashed with 176 people on board a few minutes after taking off from Tehran International Airport. There were no survivors.
Tehran had until then denied that the Ukrainian company's Boeing 737-800 had been struck by an Iranian missile, as claimed by Canada and the United States.
The consequence of "American adventurism "
In a statement relayed by public television, the Iranian army specifies that the culprits will be brought before a military court and offers its condolences to the families of the victims, who are mostly Iranians and Canadians of Iranian origin.
The plane crashed in the hours following Iran's attacks on Iraqi bases housing US troops in retaliation for the US assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani on January 3.
The accident was the result of human error and "American adventurism ," Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif said on Twitter after the military statement was released. " Our deep regrets, apologies and condolences to our people, the families of all the victims and other affected nations ," he added.
A sad day. Preliminary conclusions of internal investigation by Armed Forces:
Human error at time of crisis caused by US adventurism led to disaster
Our profound regrets, apologies and condolences to our people, to the families of all victims, and to other affected nations.
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