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This was due to “human error” in the radar reconciliation process, according to a report released by the Iran Civil Aviation Organization (CAO) on Saturday night.
Human error led to the “107th degree error” of the system, he says.
This mistake, in the absence of communication with management, “started a dangerous chain” involving more mistakes made minutes before the plane crashed, says a CAO document called a “statement of fact” rather than a final report on investigation of the plane crash.
On January 8, a Ukrainian International Airlines (MAU) Boeing 737-800 aircraft on its flight 752 was shot down by two missiles and crashed as soon as it took off from Tehran’s main airport. The incident came after escalating tensions between the United States and Iran.
The Shiite republic initially blamed the technical problems for the plane crash, but admitted a few days later that its forces had inadvertently shot down a Ukrainian plane, supporting it with a flying missile. The accident killed 176 people on the liner.
The CAO stated that despite the misrepresentation of the aircraft’s trajectory, the radar system operator was able to identify its target as a liner, but instead “misidentification” occurred.
The document also notes that the first of the two missiles launched at the plane was launched by the defense unit operator, which acted “without any response from the coordination center” on which it depended.
The second rocket launched after 30 seconds, “monitoring the continuity of the trajectory of the detected target,” the report added.
Tehran’s air defense systems were operating at a high level of readiness at the time, as there was a risk that the US would react to an Iranian missile attack against US forces deployed in Iraq.
Those blows were inflicted in response to the earlier assassination of influential Iranian general Qasem Soleimani during a US drone attack near Baghdad airport.
After the disaster, Iran negotiated with Ukraine, Canada and other states whose citizens were on the plane that had been shot down and that required a thorough investigation.
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