On 8 January 2020, the Boeing 737-800 operating the route was shot down shortly after takeoff from Tehran Imam Khomeini International Airport by the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp.

However, Canadian Prime Minister On 19 January, the bodies of 11 Ukrainian citizens, who died in the crash, were returned to Ukraine in a solemn ceremony at the Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) suspended flights to Tehran indefinitely shortly after the incident, with flights after the day of the crash no longer available.On 11 January, the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said they had shot down the aircraft after erroneously identifying it as a hostile target.In April, an Iranian MP, the spokesman for the Iranian parliament's legal and judicial committee, said the Iranian military "carried out their duties well", adding that "the movement of the plane was very suspicious" and that no arrests had been made in relation to the incident.On 11 January, in response to the government's admission, thousands of protesters poured into the streets of Tehran and other Iranian cities such as A Khamenei representative in the elite Revolutionary Guards, told a gathering of Khamenei’s representatives in Iranian universities that the Iran's security forces were on alert not to let people turn funerals of the plane crash victims into demonstrations. Beachten Sie bitte immer die aktuellen Hinweise des auswärtigen Amt und der Airlines zu den Einreise- bzw. Damit ist idealo als erster Preisvergleich vom TÜV Saarland nach den folgenden Kriterien zertifiziert: Qualität der Inhalte, Aktualität, vielfältige Suchoptionen, Transparenz, Übersichtlichkeit, Datenschutz.Mit der idealo Flugsuche-App immer Preise vergleichen! Vueling. Some aircraft investigation experts expressed concerns about disturbing and damaging the crash site before a thorough investigation can be conducted.On 20 January, Iran asked for assistance from France and the United States to recover the data from the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder.On 12 March, Iran agreed to hand over the recorders to Ukraine.On 11 June, Iran announced that the flight recorders would be sent directly to the On 20 July, the examination of the recorders started in Paris; Champagne rejected the finding by the CAOI that "Iranian and Ukrainian government sources initially blamed mechanical issues aboard the aircraft for its crash.On 9 January, U.S. intelligence and defence officials said they believed the aircraft had been shot down by an Iranian After three days of describing it as "an American lie", "a wrongful scenario by The flight had been delayed by more than an hour because the captain had decided to offload some luggage because the aircraft was over its According to an early IRGC statement, when the airplane seemed to head toward a "sensitive military centre" of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, controllers mistook it for a "hostile target" and shot it down.Western experts had previously noted that Flight 752 was flying near several sensitive Iranian ballistic missile facilities, including the On 11 July 2020, the CAOI reported that Iran now blamed the On 9 January, President Trump said the airplane "was flying in a pretty rough neighbourhood, and somebody could have made a mistake. Ural Airlines. An Iranian journalist based in London who initially posted the footage insisted his source was safe, and that the Iranian authorities had arrested the wrong person.President Zelensky expressed condolences to the relatives of the victimsOn March 31, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced the appointment of Shootdown of a Ukrainian civilian airliner by the Iran-Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in January 2020UR-PSR, the aircraft involved in the incident, in October 2019The list is based on Ukrainian sources, with notes indicating confirmed deviations.According to Iranian officials, 146 passengers used an Iranian passport to leave Iran; some victims from Canada were Canadian-Iranian citizens.Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister said "the number of Canadian citizens believed to have been aboard the airplane is 57—not 63 as initially provided by Ukrainian authorities.