Iran's civil aviation authority is blaming “human error” as the reason for a passenger jet being shot down by the Iranian military in January 2020, The Canadian Press reported on Wednesday.

Iran's Revolutionary Guard fired two missiles at Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 shortly after it took off from Tehran on January 8 last year, killing all 176 aboard. The agency's final report into the crash said “the aircraft was misidentified as a hostile target by an air defense unit.”


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