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Source: Flightradar24. By Lauren Leatherby.

Consensus growing that Ukrainian plane was downed

An Iranian missile brought down a Ukrainian jetliner over Iran this week, American officials and the Canadian prime minister said.

“We recognize that this may have been done accidentally,” the Canadian leader, Justin Trudeau said at a news conference in Ottawa. All 176 people on board were killed, including 63 Canadians.

Video verified by The Times appears to show an Iranian missile hitting a plane near Tehran’s airport, the area where the jet stopped transmitting its signal before it crashed on Wednesday.

Details: An American official said that two missiles had been fired from a mobile air defense system, the SA-15. It is similar to the one that shot down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing the 298 people aboard.

From Iran: On Wednesday, a spokesman for Iran’s armed forces, Abolfazl Shekarchi, was quoted by the Iranian news media as dismissing the idea that the crash was a result of military action: “This is ridiculous. Most of the passengers on this flight were our valued young Iranian men and women. Whatever we do, we do it for the protection and defense of our country and our people.” Iran Says It Unintentionally Shot Down Ukrainian Airliner By FARNAZ FASSIHI “The Islamic Republic of Iran deeply regrets this disastrous mistake,” President Hassan Rouhani said, as Iran reversed its claims that mechanical failure was to blame.