Ukrainian airliner with 180 passengers and crew on board has crashes near Tehran,Iran Wednesday Jan 08,2020

A Ukrainian airliner with 180 passengers and crew on board has crashed near Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport in  Iran early on Wednesday Jan 08,2020

Iran's state television said all those on board the airliner were killed

According to the Iranian media, the Boeing 737-800 jet crashed near Parand, a suburb southwest of capital Tehran shortly after take-off

Iran's Red Crescent earlier said there was no chance of finding survivors. Images posted on social media also indicated that there were no survivors

The Ukrainian Passenger Plane Crashed minutes after taking off from the Iranian capital's main airport, turning farmland on the outskirts of Tehran into fields of flaming debris and killing all on board.

Ukraine's foreign minister, Vadym Prystaiko, said there were 82 Iranians, 63 Canadians and 11 Ukrainians on the plane.

The Ukrainian nationals included two passengers and the nine crew. There were also 10 Swedish, four Afghan, three German and three British nationals

The plane's departure from Imam Khomeini International Airport was delayed by almost an hour. It took off to the west but never made it above 8,000 feet, according to data from the flight-tracking website FlightRadar24.

Note

In early 2019, a Boeing 707 military cargo plane crashed in bad weather west of the Iranian capital, killing 15 out of the 16 passengers

In February 2018, an Iranian passenger plane with 65 people on board crashed during a flight from Tehran to Yasuj

In 2014, an Antonov-140 type plane with 48 people on board crashed shortly after takeoff at Tehran's Mehrabad airport, leaving 39 people dead.