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Iranian investigators are blaming a misaligned missile battery and miscommunication about shootdown of Ukrainian Boeing 737

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Last updated: July 12, 2020, 13:28 UTC
Published: Sunday, July 12, 2020, at 13:28 UTC
Category: Emergency
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Iran blames bad communication, alignment for jet shootdown.

Iranian investigators are blaming a misaligned missile battery and miscommunication between soldiers and their commanders for the Revolutionary Guard shooting down a Ukrainian jetliner in January, killing 176 people.

The report released late Saturday by Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization comes months after the crash.

The shootdown happened the same night Iran launched a ballistic missile attack targeting U.S. soldiers in Iraq over the American drone strike that earlier killed Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad.

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