Iran Sentences 10 Airmen to Prison Over Downed Ukraine Airliner
- Plane was shot down in aftermath of Iranian strike on US base
- ‘Ignorant’ airman failed to observe basic communication drills
Officials work at the Ukrainian flight PS752 International airlines crash site, after the flight was shot down near Tehran, Iran, on Jan. 8, 2020.
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Iran’s judiciary sentenced 10 members of its air defense forces to between one and 13 years in prison for their involvement in shooting down a Ukrainian passenger plane near Tehran in 2020, state media reported.
In a statement published on Sunday, Mizan Online, the official news portal for Iran’s judiciary, didn’t name any of the individuals and said the verdicts had been reached after 20 court hearings and “detailed investigations” over three years.