A weeping spruce will honour the memories of 10 members of the University of Alberta community killed more than two years ago when Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752 was shot down over Iran.
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Daniel Ghods-Esfahani remembers texting his girlfriend Saba Saadat moments before she boarded Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752. She told him those in the waiting lounge were nervous over geopolitical tensions in the region and were happy to be leaving Iran.
Friday marks one year since Saadat boarded that plane in Tehran with her mother and sister. Shortly after it departed, the Boeing 737 jet was struck by a ground-to-air surface missile, exploding in mid-air and killing all 176 people on board.
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EDMONTON A year has not lessened the grief nor questions of the families of 13 Edmontonians who were killed in a plane crash Jan. 8, 2020. We re kind of stuck on Jan. 8, you know? says Javad Soleimani. Of the 176 people on board the Ukrainian International Airlines flight PS752, 55 were Canadian. Thirteen victims were Edmontonians, including Soleimani s wife Elnaz Nabiyi. Everybody on board died when, shortly after takeoff from Tehran, the airplane was shot down with surface-to-air missiles fired by the Iranian revolutionary guard corps. I have no words, vocabulary, to put what has been the last year, echoed Reza Akbari, an Iranian Canadian who was friends with another victim of the tragedy, U of A engineering student Nasim Rahmanifar.