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Globe and Mail: Families of victims take issue with Iran’s report on downed Ukrainian airliner

By Globe and Mail.

Published July 13, 2020 at 5:31 am

A relative of passengers and crew members of the crashed Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 reacts at the Boryspil airport outside Kiev on January 8, 2020. - All passengers and crew on board the Ukrainian Boeing 737 plane that crashed shortly after take-off from Tehran on January 8, 2020 were killed, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said. (Photo by Sergei Supinsky / AFP)

Photo by AFP

The families of Canadian passengers killed when a Ukrainian jetliner was shot down in Iran this past January are skeptical about a new Iranian report that says various military errors led to the incident, criticizing that version of events as untrustworthy.