Yellow of the Ukrainian Boeing crashed in Tehran. Media: shot down by missiles. Trump: maybe a mistake

2020-01-09T17:37:40.051Z

"Someone may have made a mistake": so American President Donald Trump commented on the disaster of the Ukrainian airliner crashed in Tehran and which, according to some sources, may have been accidentally hit by an Iranian missile. "I have a suspicion of what happened," added Trump, after press rumors pointing his finger on Tehran's anti-missile system excluding technical problems of the crashed Boeing 737. The Ukrainian Boeing crashed in Tehran on the night of the Iranian attack on the US bases in Iraq was allegedly shot down by an anti-aircraft missile. Newsweek writes that he cites three sources: one from the Pentagon, one from US intelligence and another from Iraqi intelligence. According to the sources cited, the plane was allegedly hit by a Russian-made Tor M-1 surface-to-air missile, known as NATO Gauntlet. The Iranian anti-aircraft battery would have been active against possible responses to raids against American targets. The hypothesis of an impact with a Russian Tor M-1 missile was also suggested by the Kiev authorities. After Newsweek, the CBS also accredits the thesis of the shooting down of the Ukrainian Boeing in Tehran. In particular, according to sources cited by the US broadcaster, American intelligence has intercepted signals of two missiles launched by the Iranians, probably SA-15, followed shortly after by an explosion. The hypothesis is that the plane was accidentally hit. The Ukrainian Boeing 737 crashed in Tehran on the night of January 8 with 176 people on board "caught fire in flight" before crashing and exploding on the ground, according to the Iranian Civil Aviation Organization in a statement published by the Tasnim agency and reported by Tass. "The plane caught fire in flight. Eyewitnesses saw the flames envelop the plane," reads the statement.