Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov has said that two passengers did not board UIA’s Boeing 737 plane, which crashed in Tehran on Jan. 8.
“I draw your attention to the fact that 167 citizens boarded the flight. Two citizens did not board the flight departing from Tehran. The NSDC has the names of those who boarded,” he said during a press briefing in Kyiv on Jan. 8.
In addition, Danilov said that these persons are not citizens of Ukraine.
As reported, the UIA’s Boeing-737, which was supposed to perform a PS752 flight on the Tehran-Kyiv route, crashed at about 6:00 Tehran time (around 4:30 Kyiv time) on Wednesday, January 8, 2020, after takeoff from Tehran airport named after Imam Khomeini. Some 167 passengers and nine crew members were onboard. All of them died.
