Moment burning Ukrainian Boeing 737 goes down, crash site covered in fire

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A Ukrainian Boeing 737-800 had suffered an engine malfunction before it went down a few minutes after taking off from Tehran’s Imam Khomeini airport, its official has said.

The airliner, operated by Ukraine International Airlines (UIA), carried 167 passengers and nine crew, most of whom were Iranians, according to Reza Jafarzadeh, a spokesman for Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization.

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