UIA Flight 752

**Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752** (**UIA 752**) was an international passenger flight from Tehran, Iran to Kiev, Ukraine that was shot down by an Iranian missile shortly after takeoff.

## Death

On January 8, UIA Flight 752 depatred Iman Khomeini Airport in Iran at 6:12 PM bound for Boryspil Airport in Ukraine. At 6:14, the airplane turned from the take-off heading of 289° to heading 313°, following its regular route.

According to the data, the last recorded altitude of the aircraft was 2,416 metres (7,925 ft) above mean sea level with a ground speed of 275 knots (509 km/h; 316 mph). The airport is 1,007 metres (3,305 ft) above mean sea level and the terrain around Parand and the crash site lies approximately 125 metres (410 ft) higher at 1,134 metres (3,720 ft). The flight was climbing at just under 15 metres per second (3,000 ft/min) when the flight data recorder abruptly ended over the open ground near the northern end of Enqelab Eslami Boulevard in Parand.

Analysis of several videos by *The New York Times* showed that the aircraft was hit almost immediately by the first of two short-range missiles (which knocked out its transponder) launched 30 seconds apart by the IRGC, and with the aircraft having maintained its track, by the second missile 23 seconds later, after which it veered right and could be seen on fire before disappearing from view. Ukrainian investigators believed the pilots were killed instantly by shrapnel from the missile which exploded near the cockpit. However, an analysis of the cockpit voice recorder indicated that for at least 19 seconds after the first missile strike, all three cockpit crew members continued to attempt to fly the aircraft, and there was no indication of injury or adverse health effects during that time.

The final ADS-B data received was at 06:14:57, less than three minutes after departure, after which the aircraft's track was recorded by primary radar only. Its last seconds were captured in several video recordings. The aircraft crashed on a park and fields on the edge of the village of Khalajabad, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi; 8.1 nmi) north-west of the airport, and about 16 kilometres (10 mi) ENE of the last missile strike, about six minutes after takeoff. There were no casualties on the ground.

Shortly after the crash, emergency responders arrived in 22 ambulances, 4 bus ambulances, and a helicopter, but intense fires prevented a rescue attempt. The wreckage was strewn over a wide area, with no survivors found at the crash site. The aircraft was completely destroyed on impact. All 176 passengers and crew were killed.

## Victims

* Kurdia Molani, 1
* Jiwan Rahimi, 3
* Sophie Emami, 5
* Mohsen Ahmadi, 5
* Asal Ovaysi, 6
* Emil Lindberg, 7
* Shahzad Eghbali Bazoft, 8
* Elsa Jadidi, 8
* Arnica Niazi, 8
* Motahereh Ahmadi, 8
* Arnica Niazi, 8
* Daniel Ghandchi, 8
* Dorina Mousavi, 9
* Erik Lindberg, 9
* Rosstin Moghaddam, 9
* Reera Esmaeilion, 9
* Rahmtin Ahmadi, 9
* Anisa Sadeghi, 10
* Seyed Noojan Sadr, 11
* Arsam Niazi, 11
* Daria Mousavi, 14
* Paria Maghsoudlouesterabadi, 15
* Kamyar Ebnoddin, 15
* Maya Zibaie, 15
* Parsa Hassannezhad, 16
* Dorsa Ghandchi, 16
* Kian Djavadi Asll, 17
* Fatemeh Pasavand, 17
* Arad Zarei, 17
* Mehraban Badiei Ardestani, 18
* Ali Reza Norouzi, 18
* Arshia Arbabbahrami, 19
* Kiana Ghasemi, 19
* Rahimeh Katebi, 20
* Pegah Safarpoor Koloor, 20
* Mahdi Rezai, 20
* Mahdieh Ghavi, 20
* Mahdi Tajik, 20
* Mehdi Mohammadi, 20
* Hossain Rezae, 20
* Amir Ghorbani Bahabadi, 21
* Saba Saadat, 21
* Amir Moradi, 21
* Shahram Tajik, 21
* Zeynab Asadi Lari, 21
* Darya Toghian, 22
* Roja Omidbakhsh, 23
* Sara Saadat, 23
* Mohammad Asadi Lari, 23
* Maria Mykytiuk, 24, crew member
* Mehdi Eshaghian Dorcheh, 24
* Denys Lykhno, 24, crew member
* Zahra Hasani Sadi, 25
* Fatemeh Ghasemi Dastjerdi, 25
* Pouneh Gorji, 25
* Amir Hossein Saeedinia, 25
* Yulia Sologub, 25, crew member
* Arash Pourzarabi, 26
* Ghazal Nourian, 26
* Sajedeh Saraeian, 26
* Delaram Dadashnejad, 26
* Mojtaba Abbasnezhad, 26
* Keteryna Statnik, 27, crew member
* Alma Oladi, 27
* Hadis Hayat Davvoudi, 27
* Mohammad Javad Mianji, 27
* Sadaf Hajiaghavand, 27
* Pedram Jadidi, 28
* Iman Aghabali, 28
* Amir Ashrafi Habibabadi, 28
* Paniz Soltani, 28
* Valeriia Ovcharuk, 28, crew member
* Mohammad Mahdi Elyasi, 28
* Samira Bashiri, 29
* Zeinolabedin Saadat, 29
* Mansour Esnaashary Esfahani, 29
* Evin Arsalani, 29
* Mohammad Amin Jebelli, 29
* Saeed Kadkhodazadeh Kashani, 29
* Alvand Sadeghi, 29
* Amin Mohammad Beiruti, 29
* Mahsa Amirliravi, 30
* Elnaz Nabiyi, 30
* Negar Borghei, 30
* Fatemeh Mahmoodi, 30
* Masoumeh "Masi" Ghavi, 30
* Sekineh Ahmadi, 30
* Masoud Shaterpour Khiaban, 31
* Hamidreza Setareh Kokab, 31
* Zahra Naghibi, 31
* Shadi Jamshidi, 31
* Faraz Falsafi, 31
* Alina Tarbhai, 31
* Mohsen Salahi, 31
* Milad Ghasemi Ariani, 32
* Mohammad Saleheh, 32
* Fareed Arasteh, 32
* Fatemeh Kazerani, 32
* Sahand Hatefi Mostaghim, 32
* Amir Hossein Ghassemi, 32
* Fareed Arasteh, 32
* Parinaz Ghaderpanah, 33
* Bahareh Karamimoghadam, 33
* Sara Hamzeei, 33
* Mohammad Hossein Saket, 33
* Aida Farzaneh, 33
* Mohammad Abbaspour Ghadi, 33
* Niloufar Ebrahim, 34
* Ihor Matkov, 34, crew member
* Milad Nahavandi, 34
* Iman Ghaderpanah, 34
* Arvin Morattab, 35
* Siavash Ghafouri-Azar, 35
* Saeed Tahmasebi Khademasadi, 35
* Ghanimat Azhdari, 36
* Ayeshe Pourghaderi, 36
* Shahab Raana, 36
* Sara Mamani, 36
* Seyed Abtahi Foroushani, 37
* Marzieh Foroutan, 37
* Saharnaz Haghjoo, 37
* Syed Abtahi Foroushani, 37
* Raheleh Lindberg, 37
* Mahdieh Hajighassemi, 38
* Farideh Gholami, 38
* Olena Malakhova, 38
* Farzaneh Naderi, 38
* Hiva Molani, 38
* Forough Khadem, 38
* Razgar Rahimi, 38
* Shakiba Feghahati, 39
* Sahand Sadeghi, 39
* Azadeh Kaveh, 40
* Mohammad Reza Kadkhodazadeh, 40
* Mikael Lindberg, 40
* Amir Hossein Ovaysi, 41
* Sheyda Shadkhoo, 41
* Bahareh Hajesfandiari, 41
* Oleksiy Naumkin, 42, flight navigator
* Roja Azadian, 42
* Sam Zokaei, 42
* Parisa Eghbalian, 42
* Siavash Maghsoudlouestarabadi, 43
* Mohammad Mehdi Sadeghi, 43
* Mojgan Daneshmand, 43
* Farhad Niknam, 44
* Mehrdad Naghib Lahouti, 44
* Shahrzad Hashemi, 45
* Behnaz Ebrahimi-Khoei, 45
* Niloofar Razzaghi, 45
* Maryam Aghamiri, 46
* Faezeh Falasafi, 46
* Mitra Ahmady, 46
* Ali Javaheri Pey, 47
* Pedram Mousavi, 47
* Fereshteh Maleki Dizaje, 47
* Serhiy Khomenko, 48, co-pilot
* Karsa Saati, 48
* Ardalan Ebnoddin, 48
* Suzan Golbabapour, 49
* Captain Volodymyr Gaponenko, 50
* Neda Sadighi, 50
* Hamidreza "Sam" Djavadi, 52
* Naser Pourshabanoshibi, 53
* Mansour Pourjam, 53
* Firouzeh Madani, 54
* Afifa Tarbhai, 55
* Soheila Razavi Moghaddam, 55
* Shekoufeh Choupannejad, 56
* Sharieh Faghihi, 58
* Shahrokh Eghbali Bazoft, 59
* Sayed Mahdi Emami, 60
* Olga Kobiuk, 61
* Niloufar Sadr, 61
* Mahmood Attar, 69
* Asgar Dhirani, 74