>> Sandra: FOX NEWS ALERT NOW,
A UKRAINIAN JET CRASHING IN IRAN
MINUTES AFTER TAKE OFF
YESTERDAY, KILLING ALL 176
PEOPLE ON BOARD.
THE BOEING 737 I JUST LEFT
IRAN'S CAPITAL OF TEHRAN FOR
UKRAINE.
DAN SPRINGER'S LIVE IN SEATTLE
WITH MORE ON WHAT WE ARE
LEARNING ABOUT THIS.
>> AT THIS POINT THERE IS NO
INDICATION THAT THE CRASH WAS
CAUSED BY THE ATTACK EARLIER IN
THE NIGHT.
IN FACT, UKRAINE'S EMBASSY IN
IRAN PUT OUT A STATEMENT EARLIER
RULING OUT TERRORISM OR A ROCKET
ATTACK.
THEY SAY IT WAS CAUSED BY A
MECHANICAL PROBLEM BUT THAT
STATEMENT WAS LATER REMOVED FROM
THEIR WEBSITE.
WE KNOW IT HAPPENED RIGHT AFTER
THE 6:10 A.M. TAKEOFF FROM THE
AIRPORT IN TEHRAN.
THE FLIGHT WAS HEAT DOMINIC
HEADED TO KIEV, UKRAINE.
FLIGHT DATA SHOWS THAT CLIMB TO
8,000 FEET AS NORMAL BUT THEN
THE INFORMATION STOPS.
DEBRIS WAS FOUND AS CLOSE TO
6 MILES AWAY FROM THAT AIRPORT,
AND THERE WERE NO SURVIVORS.
176 PEOPLE ON BOARD, 82 WERE
FROM IRAN, 63 WERE CANADIAN.
THERE WERE NO AMERICANS ON THE
FLIGHT.
REUTERS IS REPORTING THAT THE
HEAD OF IRAN'S CIVIL AVIATION
MINISTRY SAID THE PLANE'S BLACK
BOX, WHICH WE ALL KNOW IS
CRITICAL TO DETERMINING THE
CAUSE OF THE CRASH, WILL NOT BE
TURNED OVER TO BOEING FOR
ANALYSIS.
THIS IS THE FIRST FATAL CRASH OF
UKRAINIAN INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES
FLIGHT, AND IT WAS SUSPENDING
ALL SERVICE TO IRAN.
THE PLANE INVOLVED WAS A BOEING
737-800.
