Boeing 737 Gets Shot Down Immediately After Takeoff | Deadly Mistake 

You know what's worse than the fact that they lied and tried to pin the whole thing on the dead pilots was the fact that they denied relatives of the dead passengers and crew access to the remains and proceeded to beat on them for it too? This is absolutely unacceptable.

The fact that the aircraft was constantly transmitting its identification on its transponder and the defense system didn’t recognize it just makes this even more dangerous for any aircraft flying in and out of Iran.

This accident hits me close to my heart. My mom was meant to be on that flight, had it not been for my sister intervening. She was just about to book this flight as a returnflight back home (while still bein home in Sweden), when my sister reacted to the time it would take with transfer (over 24h travelling time). In the end, my sister found a flight for her on the 9th instead. I just can't.... believe the luck. But when I first woke up the morning of the 8th, not being sure exactly when her flight would start due to time differences (datewise), my heart just stopped. In shear panic I started to call my aunt, my sister, my mom, our ministry of foreign affairs, but no one picked up. At the same time I tried to find the passangerlists online with no success. At last my sister called me up and told me mom was alright, that her flight was on the next day! Oh the relief! The grief of those who perished! I cried so hard for them, for everybody losing someone. I still get sick in my stomach watching videos about this accident. It was just pure luck for us, what if mom had booked the tickets without us being in the room with her? She would not be here now, and my world would've been ruined forever. I cry everytime I look at the pictures of those gone. It could've been my mom. But this time it was someone else's mom, dad, brother, sister, child. 💔 Such a horrible way to go... After my mothers flight the day after they suspended all airtraffic and from Iran for a while. I'm just glad that I can still hug her.

That this tragedy happened is just unbelievable to me. Ultimately, the man who decided to ignore protocol and just fire on the plane, twice holds most of the blame. Just horrible. RIP to the 176 souls lost. Thank you for an excellent presentation of this avoidable tragedy.

It infuriates me that the Iranians said it was an engine fire at first, then admitted to shooting it down, just admit it from the beginning.

I'm from Iran and I knew one of the passengers. A brilliant then university graduate student whom I went to same highschool & middleschool with. RIP.

It is so crazy how the pilot still controlled the plane after a single missile hit them.

May the passengers and crew of Ukraine International Airlines flight 752 rest in peace.

A deadly chain of events led to this tragic accident that could have easily been avoided. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who have lost their loved ones on board Flight 752. 😢

I live in Ukraine and often fly with UIA; this airline has excellent service and friendly staff. I was shocked when I learned about this aircraft accident; this is the first major aircraft accident on Ukrainian airlines, and I was very struck by the callous behavior of the Iranian authorities.

You handled this heartbreaking incident in a factual, straight forward manner. Thank you. Let's pray this NEVER happens again. This will stay in my head for a long time. May all those souls rest in everlasting peace.

TFC, this is one of your best yet. You switched POV among the various parties involved, illustrated the 107° tracking error, and stuck to the facts. Exemplary!

At least Irans civil aviation authority had the moral guts to stick to the truth ,the aircraft was on the right course unlike the defence story

This one brought tears to my eyes, a big lump in my throat................and a lot of anger. That flight should never have been permitted to take off, particularly after the warning had been put out long before its delayed departure. Whoever launched those missiles should have been stood in front of a firing squad.

Someone I know, was on this flight ☹️ her 17th birthday was coming up literally in 3 days….She died with her mother and younger brother..I’ll never get how passenger planes get mistaken for war planes

The lack of media attention this event got was disgusting

The production value and level of detail in this is mind blowing

One of the students from my school died in this crash. Him and his father were on the plane which were 2 of the 5 Canadians. So sad to see the mother in grief.

I have watched every one of your videos. This is the first one that has brought tears to my eyes. It's truly amazing how you presented this heartbreaking incident in such a manner that was not only empathetic and compassionate, yet kept it very straight forward. By far, one of your best videos so far.

Oh UIA, how I miss it, how long it’s been since I’ve seen our planes, how I want to fly somewhere on them again. It hurts to see them standing at the airport for the second year, fortunately they are intact. I remember watching your videos since 2018, consoled myself that there were no incidents on my airlines (UIA), everything will be fine) And two years later such horror... May I honor the crew and passengers. I believe that soon our UIA planes will burst into the skies again) Thank you for your videos and for your work, after so many years, I’m still here 🫶🏻

I remember seeing this on TV the day it happened! News outlets in the U.S. were reporting that it was shot down right away

its has been 6 years since you posted the first plane crash video, you have evolved alot

this is exactly why the Israel's full service flag carrier El Al has it's fleet of B787-9, B777-300 ER & B737-800 airliners equipped with active protection suite . . . missile warning receiver & a state-of-the-art countermeasure system that can detect & evade incoming surface-to-air missiles miles away . . .

Reminds me of flight Malaysia 17😢

Incompetence on the part of the Iranian military and authorities clearly the cause of this tragic crash. RIP all those poor souls on board. Our thoughts and prayers go out to their families and loved ones.

My girlfriend's two best friends were on this flight heading back to Canada. This was really tragic and didn't need to happen.

I used to watch this channel a lot, years ago when the flight sim footage was much simpler, and loved it then. I stopped watching for some time (mostly due to running out of content I hadn't seen) today this video popped into my feed and I watched it. I am very impressed with how much the simulation and graphics have improved on this channel. Good job guys!

Thank you for providing this heartbreaking incident in a straight forward manner.

Rest in Peace to all the souls on board. May be one day we will all get to see a world with no threats of war. 😢 This broke my heart. Thanks for another great (allbeit sad) video. ❤😢😢

"Incidents" like these are disgusting.

Absolutely amazing graphics and detail. I just feel so sad for what happened. The terror the passengers must have felt in the last minutes of the doomed flight... oh my God. Absolutely horrible.

As a Swedish I am sad for everyone who lost their lives and for the families. May they all rest in peace ❤😔

I can’t believe this was 3 years ago. I remember how recent this was.

I have never been able to find out a definitive reason why the plane’s transponder squawk was ignored.

I like how it is all filmed in a cinematic way, great job! These animations in between to, not sure if they come from you but they do add something extra to this video!

One of the diplomatic tangles in all this was that the majority of passengers on the flight were travelling to Canada. There were actually 57 Canadians on board, 52 of whom had dual Iranian-Canadian citizenship, plus a ton of students were on board headed to Canadian universities. The mullahs do not have a particularly positive view of Canada, to put it mildly, although the Iranian people don't seem to share that opinion. This is also why nearly all of the legal wrangling has been in front of Canadian judges.

The absolute incompetence of Iran's defense communication. Geez.

Man, you really put tears in my eyes the way you summarized the story at the end with the building of the sad music. RIP to all. Great video

How tragic! Rest in Peace all the innocent souls.

Some trigger happy lunatic got excited... If they just had taken a look, they would've seen that it was a commercial airplane. Just what was it that they were smoking

Love your videos!

I remember when the US Navy accidentally mistook an Iranian commercial airliner and shot it down. At first I thought this video was about that event (Iran Air Flight 655 in 1988), but when I saw the CY 2020, I realized my error.

thank you for posting this. big fan of this channel, but never thought there would be a video where someone I knew personally was killed. my best friend and her family were on this flight and I will never forget the feeling of knowing your own people killed someone who you love. روحشان شاد 💔🕊

Must hold these politicians and military people who committed war crime responsible! 🤔

Absolutely spectacular animation in this production! RIP to all crew and passengers. Tragic.

Excellent video!❤

I've waited so long for this episode, thanks!

The fact that it stayed airborne after the first strike blows my mind. This reminds me of TWA 800. On flight 800, the passengers and crew experienced a whiplash, so with an explosion like this, wouldn’t’ e flight 752 had this experience too? Also, COULD’VE the passengers seen the missiles before it even hit?

Thank you for this! I always wondered how it could have happened, even if the SAM crews were jumpy. Loved the graphics about the misleading trajectory, very clear.

Awesome video…thanks. So many potential major accidents in aviation history that you can still cover.

This a truly an amazing channel, and especially this video is such insane realism and incredible detail is incredible. My Aunt had co workers from Tehran who were on this flight. May some fatal misidentification like this never happen again.

You know there was at least one passenger on that flight who sat down and thought, this day can't possibly get any worse

I listened to the CVR from this flight, which is available on RU-vid, and it literally made me shudder. Scary, sad, and disturbing stuff.

as an iraqi when my family heard the news they definitely thought the plane was shot down deliberately as maybe someone on board was a target etc. it was rly sad to hear the news at that time.

Absolutely stellar animations and editing.

Probably because I don’t use any social media , other then RU-vid , and I don’t watch or listen or read any news , I never even knew this had happened. What a tragedy

Amazing video quality. Humans are a vile species. This was soul crushing.

Good video as always!❤

Nice video! Thumbs up👍😃

One of your best videos to date.. Editing on point.

Great video

Man great video! Also where should we put recommendation for later episodes, or do you not accept recommendations.

These reenactments are getting much better. That being said, it looked terrifying.

This, I believe, is your most finest work yet! You did a wonderful job of showing the facts of what happened! ❣️😊

R.I.P to all who died

Once again, you produced an excellent video. 👍✌️🙏🏻

*Condolences to the families of the 176 souls that perished on UIA flight 752*

Thanks for filling in the details. Hopefully, this will be a tragic lesson learned.

Its diifcult to understand that when there was flight tracking error in the defence radar resulting in the actual postion being quite different from the apparent position ,how did the missiles land on an object which thereby was flying at a completely different position. This indicates that such systems are useless when there could be multiple planes both hostile & friendly jostling over a same area

Deepest condolences to all the victims. This accident should have never taken place

Good, fair, description.

Very sad and tragic 😢Condolences to all those that lost a loved one on this doomed flight. May the souls of the lost ones rest in peace.

There are many parts of the world I would never ever go to, not even for millions of quids, and this is one of them.

They mainly killed their own people. I hope the guy who fired the unauthorized missile was severely punished.

I just can't imagine the sheer horror the passengers and crew must've felt. Unbelievable.

Condolences to their families.

It is made so well

How awful 😢 I remember this.

May all of the 176 Rest In Peace. War Sucks.

Це була трагедія для всіх...😢😢😢

This mistake could have been prevented with better communication. May the passengers be rescued and recover from the injuries.

I live in Vancouver and it was breaking news there cuz some of the victims and their family were also residents too (they live in North Vancouver) when there names were announced one by one . By the way RIP for the victims go lost their lives in this tragedy 😭😭😭

I took the exact same Morning flight less than 6 Months before this accident...it was very shocking for me to learn about it.

Man those graphics are fire, not just the planes but everything.

This was so beautifully done I have no words

Wait a minute, these are the people that are after getting a nuclear bomb, aren't they? What can possibly go wrong?

This is heartbreaking 💔😢

Wow great video. I always wondered why this happen..

I am an iranian. Believe it or not we really hate them. We don’t want these killers in our country who literally go up and say “we shut them off, so what? We can do everything we can to. My best friend’s friend was on this flight, every time my bestie starts talking about her, all of us really cry for what happened to her life. May she and her mother rest in peace and wish everything good for her strong dad.🤍

The tyrants should be held accountable & punished brutally.

What is the name of the song near the end of the video? It suits the sadness of what happened very well... Very heartfelt and touching...😢

Such a clinical report given the loss of life. It’s chilling so many errors needed to occur (and did) before the missiles wee fired.

I don't pretend to know what the SAM system capabilities are in this case but I was a radar operator when I was in the USN in the late 80s (and yes that was when the USS Vincennes shot down an Iranian airliner) and our detection equipment not only included the air search radar but also IFF transpoder that could detect Mode 3 and C which is what commercial airliner transponders use to announce their altitude and specific comercial airliner code. If this SAM system had the ability to read Mode 3 and C the operators would have been able to see plainly that this was an airliner. Suffice to say the operator(s) of this particular SAM system were probably executed.

What a disastrous 2020 was. First this, then Kobe Bryants crash shortly after this and COVID 😭

Absolutely horrible. I hope the soldier that fired those two missiles is haunted forever by the innocent people he murdered.

@theflightchannel Could you do the Tanker 134 Crash? It was a C130 that was doing water drops when it crashed during the Australian Bush Fires

I think that the Ukrainians especially the government should recant and reject the Iranian government’s apology about shooting down this flight.

I dont like the fact that for the "ballistic missiles" you had cruise missiles, and then for SAMs you show completely incorrect missiles and systems. The system that shot it down was a Russian TOR system, and you could have shown pictures of it instead.

Absolutely crazy

I must interrupt this very serious topic to appreciate the amazing graphics of this flight simulator, and the production quality of this channel. I am curious if the stars in the night sky are accurate? That's where we are with these programs today. I now return you to your regularly scheduled disaster video.