Iran says the misalignment of an air defence unit's radar system was the key 'human error' that led to the accidental downing of a Ukrainian passenger plane in January.
Iran said that the misalignment of an air defence unit's radar system was the key"human error" that led to the accidental"A failure occurred due to a human error in following the procedure" for aligning the radar, causing a"107-degree error" in the system, the Iranian Civil Aviation Organisation said in a report late Saturday.
Flight 752, a Ukraine International Airlines jetliner, was struck by two missiles and crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran's main airport on 8 January, at a time of heightened US-Iranian tensions.The Islamic republic admitted several days later that its forces accidentally shot down the Kiev-bound plane, killing all 176 people on board.
The second missile was fired 30 seconds later,"by observing the continuity of trajectory of the detected target," the report added.The CAO said there was a defect in the transmission to the defence units coordination centre of the data identified by the radar. Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Lieutenant General and Commander of the Quds Force Qasem Soleimani was killed on 3 January by a US airstrike.The aircraft tragedy sparked fierce reprobation in Iran, especially after it took three days for the armed forces to admit having shot down the plane"by accident" after a missile operator mistook it for an enemy projectile.
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