Alvar and his wife negar, his sister sohand and her five year old daughter sufi all died in the crash. Its left close friend utterly dazed. First, it was shock and denial because, you know, you cant fathom it, itjust doesnt make sense, you never hear of such a story but then as you keep reading and looking at the, you know, news and videos and there is this anger, like, why did it happen to these people . They are the nicest people. Why them . The us, canada and britain say there is evidence of an Iranian Missile hitting the plane. Tehran calls those illogical allegations and says it could take one or two years to complete its investigation. But these pictures show its already chosen to clear much of the crash site, potentially burying important leads. And even before the data has been analysed from the flight recorders, its officials already say they are sure of one thing. Translation an Aviation Authority cannot speculate. We arent sure of the causes yet but what we can say for certa
We start with breaking news in the last few minutes, irans state television has reported that the ukrainian aircraft that crashed near tehran on wednesday was brought down due to human error. This was brought down due to human error. Of course c earlier this of course changes irans story, earlier it had denied there was a possibility that it had shot down the plane. Now it says that is so. I have one unofficial translation of what iran has said. The armed forces statement says the plane was unintentionally hit due to human error, and the administration has gone on to offer an apology, we will gone on to offer an apology, we will go on to get an official translation of that, originally given statement in farsi. There were videos showing what to the plane. 57 of the victims on the plane were canadian. Our north america correspondent Aleem Maqbool is in toronto. So this is about two weeks ago when they got to iran. The siddiqi family travelled to iran from canada to plan a wedding. They n