The Boeing 737-800 came down hours after Iran launched a barrage of rockets against US targets in Iraq. It was then found that Iran's jittery air defence troops targeted the plane by mistake.

Iran's air defences had been on high alert at the time ... The plane was a Boeing 737-800 - one of the international airline industry's most widely used aircraft models. Before leaving the ...

said the Boeing 737-800 was built in 2016 and had its last scheduled maintenance on Monday. Hours before the plane came down Iran carried out a ballistic missile attack on two air bases housing US ...

A handful of the nearly 5,000 Boeing 737-800 aircraft produced have been involved in fatal crashes, but the jet is generally ...

The Boeing 737-800 NG aircraft crashed minutes after takeoff from Tehran, just a few hours after Iran launched air strikes against U.S. targets in Iraq. All 176 people on board died, including 63 ...