Fifty-five Canadian citizens, 30 permanent residents and dozens more with ties to Canada were among the 176 people killed in the downing of Flight 752
The Civil Aviation Organization released the new report Saturday night. Mr. Soleimani, a member of the board of directors of the Association of Families of Flight PS752 Victims, said in an interview from Edmonton that the paper “is like an undergrad student report for a course project.”
Mr. Soleimani said there should be an international investigation with participation by, among others, Canada, Britain, Ukraine and Iran. He said Iran can be part of the investigation, “but we don’t trust any investigation led by Iran.”Reza Akbari, president of the Iranian Heritage Society of Edmonton, home to 13 crash victims, said it was odd that it had taken so long to come out with the report, which leaves questions unanswered.
The plane was shot down the same night Iran also launched a ballistic missile attack targeting U.S. soldiers in Iraq, its response to the American drone strike that killed Revolutionary Guard General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad a few days earlier. Those manning the missile battery could not communicate with their command centre, they misidentified the civilian flight as a threat and opened fire twice without getting approval from ranking officials, the report said.
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