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 ...

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.

Join our Whatsapp channel DUBAI: Iran conducted air defence exercises on Saturday as the country braces for more friction with Israel and the United States under incoming US president Donald Trump.

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 ...