Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) Boeing 737-800 that was flying to Kiev crashed some minutes after it took off from Iran’s Imam Khomeini airport on Wednesday, killing all 176 people (167 passengers and 9 crew) on board. The plane’s two black boxes (the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder) had been found. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said that the crash is the first fatal incident for Ukrainian airline. Meanwhile, several major airlines said on Wednesday that they were re-routing their flights to avoid airspace over Iraq and Iran after the Federal Aviation Administration banned United States carriers from the area following an Iranian missile attacks on the facilities housing U.S-led forces in Iraq. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) also issued airspace ban on the Gulf of Oman and the waters between Iran and Saudi Arabia due to the increased tensions in the Middle East.
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