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.

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

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.

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.

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. 😢

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

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.

The lack of media attention this event got was disgusting

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!

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 🫶🏻

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

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.

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

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!

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

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

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!

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

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. ❤😢😢

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.

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 . . .

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 💔🕊

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Love your videos!

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?

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

Reminds me of flight Malaysia 17😢

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Absolutely stellar animations and editing.

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

"Incidents" like these are disgusting.

Great video

Nice video! Thumbs up👍😃

How tragic! Rest in Peace all the innocent souls.

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.

Good video as always!❤

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

One of my old classmates was on this flight. I remember the day I got to school and my friend told me about it. I never really knew the guy but it's still heartbreaking.

@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

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

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

Good, fair, description.

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...😢

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

How awful 😢 I remember this.

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

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.

The missile taking off and it's flight through the clouds IMO was bloody epic !! Well done you 😁

It is made so well

Imagine being a passenger on this plane who survived the initial impact and you look out the window and see fire and see the plane diving toward the ground.

What pc do you use for flight sim 2020?

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 😭😭😭

R.I.P to all who died

The Ukrainian Embassy in Iran also released the same so-called "Pilot Error" statement on their website in the morning, but removed it after a few hours.

Condolences to their families.

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.

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

People talking about other countries also shooting down commercial aircraft, but you should do a video on the US Navy fighter jet that shot down another US fighter jet on accident as part of a training exercise. There wasn't supposed to be live ammunition on the training jet but there was and the pilot got confused and literally shot down his colleagues. Wild story.

From wehre did you get the realistic ground service addon ?

This was so beautifully done I have no words

Two questions: Was Ukraine compensated after they were wrongfully shot down by those missiles? Were there any passengers that missed out or cancelled their flight before realizing they would have also been doomed if they did board?

Ah...❤❤❤❤❤❤...thanks finally you made ps752...was it at my request??????❤❤❤

TheFlightChannel please make a video of what happened to Philippine Airlines 113 please upload a video of it next week