Canadian officials say Iran failed to prove Flight 752 was shot down in error

Canadian safety officials said today that Iran's investigation of the destruction of Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752 failed to support its claim that the passenger jet was shot down due to human error. In its final report released yesterday, Iran's civil aviation authority concluded the Boeing 737-800 passenger plane was shot down accidentally in January 2020 after being "misidentified" by an air defence unit as a "hostile target." Kathy Fox, chair of the Transportation Safety Board of Canada, said the report offers no detailed explanation or evidence regarding the underlying factors that led the air defence unit to launch two surface-to-air-missiles at the plane shortly after it took off from Tehran's main airport in the early hours of Jan. 8. "To date, Iran has provided no evidence to support this scenario, but it is a plausible explanation of what happened," Fox told a press conference Thursday. "In short, the report says what happened but it doesn't answer the why."<br/>