A passenger plane of Ukraine International Airlines with 176 people on board crashed near the Tehran airport early on Jan. 8. No one survived. Agence-France Presse said the dead included 167 passengers and nine crew members.

Flight PS752 came down less than four minutes after taking off from Imam Khomeini International Airport. Iranian state television initially reported that the crash might have been caused by technical issues, but other news reports suggested Iranian forces mistakenly shot the plane down.