A Kiev-bound Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 crashed shortly after takeoff from Tehran, Iran, early Wednesday morning, killing all 176 passengers and nine crew members on board. The head of the Red Crescent told Iranian news agency ISNA that it was “obviously impossible” that any passengers on flight PS-752 survived.
Local media in Algeria has confirmed the deaths of at least 257 people after either an Il-76 or Il-78 military plane crashed after shortly taking off from an airbase in the country.
A video has surfaced of the massive wreckage approximately 50 kilometers south of the country’s capital Algiers.
14 medical vehicles were dispatched to the scene. Algerian officials are still determining the cause of the crash.
21st Century Wire says…
A Russian Tupolev transport plane which had 92 people on board, including 84 passengers and eight crew members, went missing over the Black Sea at 2:40 GMT.
The majority of the passengers were members of the Alexandrov Ensemble, which is the official choir of the Russian armed forces. 21WIRE will be keeping an eye on this tragic situation as it develops.
