Maafisa kutoka nchini Marekani wamedai kuwa ndege ya abiria ya Ukraine Boeing 737-800 iliyoanguka nchini Iran ilitunguliwa kwa kombora la Iran.
Wakati huohuo Pentagon kupitia afisa wa juu wa masuala ya kiintelijensia pamoja na afisa mwingine wa masuala ya kiintelijensia wa Iraq wamenukuliwa kupitia chombo cha habari cha Newsweek wakidai kuwa, wanaamini ndege hiyo ilitunguliwa kwa kombora lililoundwa nchini Urusi la Tor-M1.
Taarifa zaidi zitawajia.
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US officials say they believe the Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737-800 was hit by a missile, CBS says.
Ukraine earlier said it was examining whether a missile strike brought down the aircraft - but Iran ruled this out.
The crash came just hours after Iran carried out missile strikes on two airbases housing US forces in Iraq.
CBS News quoted US intelligence sources as saying a satellite detected infrared "blips" of two missile launches, followed by another blip of an explosion.
Meanwhile, Newsweek quoted a Pentagon and senior US intelligence officials, as well as an Iraqi intelligence official, as saying they believed the Ukrainian plane was hit by a Russian-made Tor missile.
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that "I have my suspicions" over the plane. "Somebody could have made a mistake," he said.
Source: BBC
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Kyiv, Ukraine - Ukraine's top security official said on Thursday that its passenger airliner that crashed in Iran, killing all 176 passengers and crew on board, may have been downed by a Russian-made missile.
The plane, carrying mostly Iranians and Iranian-Canadians, crashed on Wednesday amid a spiralling escalation between Tehran and Washington.
A team of 45 Ukrainian experts has arrived in the Iranian capital to examine why the Ukrainian International Airlines plane plunged from the sky minutes after takeoff from Imam Khomeini International Airport, Oleksiy Danilov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, told journalists.
Source: Al Jazeera
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UPDATE:Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirms that Iranian missile shot down Ukrainian airliner with 176 passengers and promised to conduct "a thorough investigation" into the plane crash. [Source: Sky News]
UPDATE: Boeing shares rallied after reports that the crashed Ukrainian airliner was most likely hit and that the plane itself was not to blame. [Source: Reuters]
UPDATE: A newly surfaced video (below) appears to show the moment a Ukrainian airliner was hit by a missile before crashing not far from Iran's airport in Tehran on Wednesday. [Al Jazeera]
US officials say they believe the Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737-800 was hit by a missile, CBS says. Ukraine earlier said it was examining whether a missile strike brought down the aircraft - but Iran ruled this out.
The crash came just hours after Iran carried out missile strikes on two airbases housing US forces in Iraq. CBS News quoting US intelligence said a satellite detected infrared "blips" of two missile launches, followed by another blip of an explosion.
Missile Defense Systems za Iran zilikuwa katika taadhari kubwa wakati wa yale mashambulizi ya kambi za US na pengine ndiyo chanzo cha hii ndege kutunguliwa kwa makosa ikidhaniwa kuwa ni ya adui.
U.S. intelligence officials have evidence that suggests the Ukraine International Airlines jetliner that crashed in Iran on Wednesday, killing 176 people, was downed by an Iranian missile. [NBC News]
Marekani inadai kuwa satellite zake zili-detect makombora mawili yaliyofyatuliwa na mfumo wa anga wa Iran muda mchache kabla ya kuanguka kwa ndege hiyo na kisha kulipuka.
U.S. intelligence officials have evidence that suggests the Ukraine International Airlines jetliner that crashed in Iran on Wednesday, killing 176 people, was downed by an Iranian missile. [NBC News]