{"id":15507,"date":"2020-01-08T13:12:58","date_gmt":"2020-01-08T13:12:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.travelcenter.uk\/?p=15507"},"modified":"2020-01-08T14:36:14","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T14:36:14","slug":"iran-plane-crash-176-passengers-killed-as-ukraine-boeing-737-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/iran-plane-crash-176-passengers-killed-as-ukraine-boeing-737-crashes\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran plane crash: 176 passengers claimed to be dead as Ukraine Boeing 737 crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this Wednesday, a Ukrainian Boeing 737 plane that carried 176+ passengers and crew crashed in Iran. While the reason was not immediately revealed; following the daunting course of the crash, the foreign ministry of Ukraine came forth to disclose that the amount of evidence and the aftermath of the wreckage clearly indicate a situation where there are no survivors.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">The flight crashed a few minutes after it departed from the Imam Khomeini International Airport in the Iranian capital. And the reason remains blurred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">However, in his\nofficial statement, Volodymyr Zelensky &#8212; the president of Ukraine, said that\nthe government was effectively trying to find out what the root of the tragic\ncrash was, he continued his narrative by offering his condolences to the\nrelatives &amp; friends of all 176 passengers who lost their lives. And has\nsince cut his trip to Oman short and is returning to Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">Upon the break of the\nnews, social media, especially Twitter went into a frenzy, with users tying the\nknots of recent tension between the USA and Iran as the significant and most\nplausible cause of the crash. Determining that the plane had been\n&#8220;accidentally&#8221; shot down. However, these claims or rather,\naccusations were denied and put to rest by Ukraine&#8217;s embassy in Iran. They\nfurther pinned the cause on engine failure and said that it was not\nterror-related by any means. Further, the embassy also ruled out rocket attacks\nas a possible cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"color:#000000\" class=\"has-text-color has-text-align-justify wp-block-paragraph\">While the mayhem around the USA and Iran continues to madden, an investigation is currently underway to cross out any theories that have been brought to light by the general public. But ultimately, regardless of whether it was terror-related or an engine malfunction, it still leaves us with a bleak distaste on what could potentially happen next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:30px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen frameborder=\"0\" width=\"698\" height=\"573\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"molvideoplayer\" title=\"MailOnline Embed Player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/embed\/video\/2083682.html\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this Wednesday, a Ukrainian Boeing 737 plane that carried 176+ passengers and crew crashed in Iran. While the reason was not immediately revealed; following the daunting course of the crash, the foreign ministry of Ukraine came forth to disclose that the amount of evidence and the aftermath of the wreckage clearly indicate a situation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":347,"featured_media":15508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[612],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/347"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15507"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15513,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15507\/revisions\/15513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.travelcenter.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}