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Jan 15, 2020, 7:44
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Jan 15, 2020, 10:09
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WASHINGTON
(NYTIMES) - The New York Times has verified security camera footage on Tuesday
(Jan 14) that shows, for the first time, that two missiles hit Ukraine
International Airlines Flight 752 on Jan 8. The missiles were launched from an
Iranian military site around 13km from the plane. The new video fills a gap
about why the plane’s transponder stopped working, seconds before it was hit by
a second missile. An earlier Times analysis confirmed what Iran later admitted:
that an Iranian missile did strike the plane. The Times also established that
the transponder stopped working before that missile hit the plane.
(NYTIMES) - The New York Times has verified security camera footage on Tuesday
(Jan 14) that shows, for the first time, that two missiles hit Ukraine
International Airlines Flight 752 on Jan 8. The missiles were launched from an
Iranian military site around 13km from the plane. The new video fills a gap
about why the plane’s transponder stopped working, seconds before it was hit by
a second missile. An earlier Times analysis confirmed what Iran later admitted:
that an Iranian missile did strike the plane. The Times also established that
the transponder stopped working before that missile hit the plane.
The new
video appears to confirm that an initial strike disabled the transponder,
before the second strike, also seen in the video, around 23 seconds later. Neither
strike downed the plane immediately. The new video shows the airliner on fire,
circling back towards Teheran’s international airport. Minutes later, it
exploded and crashed down, narrowly missing the village of Khalaj Abad. The
Times has confirmed that the new video was filmed by a camera on the roof of a
building near the village of Bidkaneh, 6km from an Iranian military site. Mr
Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Revolutionary Guard’s airspace unit, said
that missiles were launched from a base near there.
video appears to confirm that an initial strike disabled the transponder,
before the second strike, also seen in the video, around 23 seconds later. Neither
strike downed the plane immediately. The new video shows the airliner on fire,
circling back towards Teheran’s international airport. Minutes later, it
exploded and crashed down, narrowly missing the village of Khalaj Abad. The
Times has confirmed that the new video was filmed by a camera on the roof of a
building near the village of Bidkaneh, 6km from an Iranian military site. Mr
Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the Revolutionary Guard’s airspace unit, said
that missiles were launched from a base near there.
Iran’s
military blamed human error for the strike, and said the plane had been
misidentified as a cruise missile flying over Teheran. But the plane’s flight
path would suggest otherwise. It was climbing at around 2,000 feet per minute
on its ascent from the airport when the first missile was fired, according to a
Times analysis of flight data.
military blamed human error for the strike, and said the plane had been
misidentified as a cruise missile flying over Teheran. But the plane’s flight
path would suggest otherwise. It was climbing at around 2,000 feet per minute
on its ascent from the airport when the first missile was fired, according to a
Times analysis of flight data.
Flight
activity from Teheran’s international airport was normal on the morning of Jan
8, the flight data showed, and Flight 752 followed its regular route. It was
one of 19 planes that took off from Teheran in the hours after Iran launched
missiles at military bases in Iraq housing US troops. The new video was
uploaded to YouTube by an Iranian user around 2am on Tuesday. The date visible
on the footage is “2019-10-17”, not Jan 8, the day the plane was downed. It is
believed that this is because the camera system was using a Persian calendar,
not a Gregorian one. Jan 8 converts to the 18th of Dey, the 10th month in the
Persian calendar. Digitally, that would display as 2019-10-18 in the video. The
discrepancy of one day could be explained by a difference between Persian and
Gregorian leap years or months.
activity from Teheran’s international airport was normal on the morning of Jan
8, the flight data showed, and Flight 752 followed its regular route. It was
one of 19 planes that took off from Teheran in the hours after Iran launched
missiles at military bases in Iraq housing US troops. The new video was
uploaded to YouTube by an Iranian user around 2am on Tuesday. The date visible
on the footage is “2019-10-17”, not Jan 8, the day the plane was downed. It is
believed that this is because the camera system was using a Persian calendar,
not a Gregorian one. Jan 8 converts to the 18th of Dey, the 10th month in the
Persian calendar. Digitally, that would display as 2019-10-18 in the video. The
discrepancy of one day could be explained by a difference between Persian and
Gregorian leap years or months.
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