Twenty minutes before her flight took off from Tehran Wednesday morning, Sheyda Shadkhoo called her husband from aboard the airplane. She had been visiting her mother and sisters in Iran and was heading back to her husband in Canada.
She was concerned about tensions between Tehran and the US. According to her husband, she had a premonition that her plane was going down and was worried about the people she would leave behind.
“She wanted me to assure her that there wasn’t going to be a war. I told her not to worry. Nothing’s gonna happen,” her husband told reporters. “She said, ‘OK. They’re telling me to turn off my phone. Goodbye.’ That was it.”
Sheyda Shadkhoo was one of 176 people who died when Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Flight 752 crashed shortly after takeoff.
What destroyed the airliner?
US, Canadian, and British officials said yesterday it was “highly likely” that an Iranian anti-aircraft missile downed the jetliner. They said the strike could well have been a mistake amid rocket launches and high tension in the region.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated, “We have intelligence from multiple sources, including our allies and our own intelligence. The evidence indicates that the plane was shot down by an Iranian surface-to-air missile.”
UIA Flight 752 stopped transmitting data just minutes after takeoff and not long after Iran launched missiles at US forces in Iraq. Iran is denying responsibility this morning, accusing the US of “spreading lies” about the crash.
Of the 176 people on board, 130 were Iranian, sixty-three were Canadian, eleven were Ukrainian (including nine crew members), ten were Swedish, four were Afghani, three were Germans, and three were British.
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