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Iran says it shot down the Ukrainian airliner in Tehran. The event now joins 5 other shoot-down disasters in recent history.

, revising former claims of a mechanical issue. The aircraft, en route to Kyiv from Tehran, crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran Airport, with Iran claiming it had strayed too close to a Revolutionary Guard base.

Tensions between the two countries escalated following the drone assassination of Qassem Soleimani, one of the country's top generals, in Baghdad, Iraq. A Cathay Pacific Airways flight from Hong Kong to Bangkok was shot down by the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China in 1954, killing nine passengers.The communist Chinese government believed the aircraft to be a Kuomintang military aircraft en route to attack Hainan Island,. China took responsibility for the accident with the country's vice-minister for foreign sending an apology letter to the British government.

 

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