Tuesday, January 21, 2020

Iran Confirms Ukrainian Airliner Was Shot Down By Two Tor-M1 Missiles

File image of a Tor-1 missile system similar to the one that was fired at the Ukrainian airliner

Daily Mail: Iran confirms Ukrainian airliner was shot down by two Tor-M1 missiles as preliminary report into disaster is released

Iran has confirmed the Ukrainian airliner was shot down by two Tor-M1 missiles
Confirms video footage appearing to show projectiles being fired at the plane
The Ukraine International Airlines plane shot down in error killing 176 people

Iran's civil aviation authority has confirmed two Tor-M1 missiles were fired at a Ukrainian airliner that was brought down earlier this month.

A preliminary report into the disaster which killed all 176 passengers on board the plane was posted on its website late Monday.

'Investigators... discovered that two Tor-M1 missiles... were fired at the aircraft,' it said, adding an investigation was ongoing to assess the bearing their impact had on the accident.

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More News On Iran Confirming That The Ukrainian Airliner Was Shot Down By Two Tor-M1 Missiles

Iran acknowledges Russian-made missiles targeted Ukraine jet -- SCMP/AP
Iran confirms it fired two missiles at Ukrainian plane -- France 24
Iran plane crash: Tor-M1 missiles fired at Ukraine jet -- BBC
Iran admits Russian-made missiles struck Ukrainian passenger plane -- FOX News
Iran Says Two 'Proximity Missiles' Brought Down Ukrainian Airliner -- Radio Farda
Iran confirms two missiles fired at downed Ukrainian airliner -- Al Jazeera

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So Soviet equipment works quiet well against civilian airliners with a large RCS and several minutes to lock on.