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Wreckage of PS752 outside Tehran.
PS752 Tragedy - Ukrainian aviation investigation head suggests passengers were out of their seats bne IntelIiNews
Ukrainian forensics head Alexander Ruvin from the
Kyiv Research Institute of Forensics has suggested from evidence obtained that passengers on Ukrainian International Airlines (UIA) flight PS752 were out of their seats before two missiles hit the plane outside Tehran
in early January, Glavcom reported.
His interview with the Ukrainian newspaper comes amid heightened tensions between Kyiv and Tehran, which have been edging towards international legal proceedings that would be pursued by Ukraine against the Iranian state. If Ukraine moves ahead with the action, it would mean the release of significantly more information about the airliner tragedy that the Tehran theocracy has endeavoured to keep under wraps.
“When the plane takes off, all passengers are fastened. It rose to an
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altitude of 2,000 metres. Until the plane rises to an altitude of 8,000 metres, the announcement that passengers should be fastened, does not turn off. So, everyone had to be fastened.
“And [yet] we saw the corpses of the dead lying on the ground, without seats.
it was burning inside and through the holes, black smoke came out.”
Ruvin said that after the plane came down the Iranian side immediately went to remove all parts of the aircraft from the crash site while still allowing people in the vicinity to enter the crash
“Everyone had to be fastened and [yet] we saw the corpses of the dead lying on the ground, without seats”
To make it clearer to you, I would say that if the people were fastened, they would fall with their seats, as was the case with passengers of [shot-down] flight MH17 [in Ukraine]. And what we saw in Iran means that there was already panic on the plane. There is reason to believe that
grounds. He added that several mobile phones and tablets which belonged to the 176 deceased were taken from the Ukrainian team by the Iranians.
The Ukrainian official stated that the Iranian side repeatedly obfuscated