'We saw a flash and an explosion': Iranian air services immediately knew that a Ukrainian plane was shot down by a missile

Building TSN.Tizhden received sensational evidence from the intelligence services - a recording of conversations between the Tehran airport control tower and the co-pilot of an aircraft of the Iranian company Aseman Airlines. The pilot at the helm of the Iranian airliner saw both the missile launch and the explosion. This recording proves that the Iranians saw the missile from the moment it was launched until it hit the Ukrainian plane. The publication of the recording caused a great stir: Iran refused to provide Ukraine with further evidence in the investigation.

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A recording of a radio exchange has been published between the dispatcher of Tehran International Airport and the co-pilot of the Iranian airline Aseman Airlines flight EP3768 Shiraz-Tehran on January 8, 2020, which was approaching Tehran airport at the time when the plane of Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 Tehran was shot down. Kyiv.

According to the specialized resource "Flightradar", an Aseman Airlines aircraft (flight EP3768) Fokker 100 flew on the route Shiraz (SYZ) - Tehran (THN) on January 8, 2020. Scheduled arrival time in Tehran is 6:25, actual time is 6:31.

The Ukraine International Airlines aircraft (flight PS752) Boeing 737 was flying on the route Tehran (THN) - Kyiv (KBP). Scheduled departure time is 5:15, actual time is 6:12.

Dispatcher: “Good morning, Ukrainian International Airlines 752, your departure altitude is 260, proceed to 6000 feet, turn right. After 6000 feet, head towards Parok.”

Pilot EP3768: “We are landing from the north. 3768".

Dispatcher: “Good morning, 3768. “Aseman” 3768, identify 3343 to the left, level 110″.

Pilot EP3768: “Aircraft 3768 is in touch. Approaching from the north, 3768. Is overflight area 320 active?”

Dispatcher: (inaudible)

Pilot EP3768: “Along the route of the flash, like from a rocket. Should there be something like this?

Dispatcher: “Area 320? How many miles? Where?"

Pilot EP3768: "I can not say exactly. But I think it’s near (the airport) Payam, (the city of) Karaj.”

Dispatcher: “How many miles? Where?"

Pilot EP3768: “I can see the light now as she flies from there.”

Dispatcher: “We were not informed about this. What does it look like? What does this light look like?

Pilot EP3768: “It’s definitely the light from a rocket.”

Dispatcher: “It’s not flying towards the city (Tehran), is it?”

Pilot EP3768: “Perhaps... Oh, no, no, it flew out from the direction of the city.”

Dispatcher: “We haven’t been told anything, but keep watching.”

Pilot EP3768: "Fine. I’m setting myself on landing course.”

Dispatcher: Ukrainian International Airlines 752, reception.

Ukrainian International Airlines 752, welcome!

“Ukrainian International Airlines” 752, can you hear me?!”

(the request is repeated for about two minutes, in response - silence)

Dispatcher: "Aseman" 3768, 9000 (inaudible), heading for landing. “Aseman” 3768, don’t you see anything else above?”

Pilot EP3768: “We saw an explosion, a big flash from the explosion. We don’t understand what it is.”

Dispatcher: “We don’t know for sure...”

Pilot EP3768: “Is everything okay on our course?”

Dispatcher: "Yeah, I don't think you'll have any problems."

Pilot EP3768: “God willing!”

According to Obozrevatel, President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky commented on the released recording of conversations between the Tehran airport control tower and the co-pilot of the Iranian company Aseman Airlines.

“Now we have another record. Why do I say “another one” because a video from unknown accounts appeared on the Internet, which shows something being knocked down by something. At first it was like this. And now our specialists have received a recording that we received back then without access to the control room and without “black boxes,” and which completely coincides with the video that was on the network,” Zelensky explained.

He emphasized that the crew of the Iranian plane saw a missile fly into the UIA plane.

“You can hear everything there - he says that “it seems to me that a rocket is flying,” he says this in both Persian and English, everything is recorded there. Indeed, this proves that the Iranian side knew from the very beginning that our plane was shot down by a missile; they knew this already at the time of the shooting down. After this shot, the Iranian dispatcher contacted our plane many times, but there was silence,” Zelensky said.

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At the same time, the president added that there may be another version of what happened.

“There may be another version, since the dispatcher contacts our plane many times. I think he understood that there was an explosion, but for what reason, I think, at the time, he may not have understood. Maybe he said, “We can sit down,” maybe this was also discussed,” Zelensky clarified.

According to him, experts will investigate this record step by step.

Iran will no longer share evidence with Ukraine on the investigation of the catastrophe of the Ukrainian liner shot down by Iranian air defense. This was stated by the Director of Accident Investigation of the Iranian Civil Aviation Organization Hassan Rezaifar, writes Liga.net.

This decision was made after an audio recording transmitted to Ukrainian experts as part of the investigation was published in Ukrainian media.

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Rezaifar called the publication of conversations between the pilots of the plane that was in the air at the same time as the downed Ukrainian airliner a “strange step.”

“This action by the Ukrainians led us to the decision not to share any more evidence with them,” he said.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• Boeing-737 "Ukraine International Airlines" crashed January 8, a few minutes after departure from Tehran airport. All 176 people on board died - 167 passengers and nine crew members.
• Crashed near Tehran (Iran), Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) before the fall, made a U-turn and tried to return to the departure airport, the Iranian Civil Aviation Administration said in a preliminary report.
• The crash occurred against the backdrop of a difficult political situation. Same day earlier Iran fired rockets at military bases in Iraqwhere were the US military. This was done in response to killing by Americans of high-ranking Iranian commander Kassem Suleimani a few days before.
• On January 9, a Ukrainian official stated that the country sees Russia's missile strike as one of several possible reasons crash of the Ukrainian passenger plane.
• As stated in a statement by the Iranian General Staff, a few hours after Iran’s missile attacks on US military bases, the number of flights of US military aircraft increased significantly, and "this circumstance caused increased sensitivity among the air defense units."
• US President Donald Trump said that doubts that the Ukrainian Boeing 737 crashed in Iran crashed due to technical problems. He was supported by the prime ministers of Canada and the United Kingdom. However, until saturday Iran these charges rejected and insisted that the most likely cause of the disaster was a technical malfunction.
• Iranian authorities said that Boeing of Ukraine International Airlines flew close to the war zone and was unintentionally shot down. The head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps said the air defense system operator mistook the plane for a cruise missile and shot it down, failing to contact the command.
• Life stories of Ukrainians who died in a plane crash in Iran, read in our material.

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