President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy conferred the title of Hero of Ukraine with the presentation of the Golden Star Order to the crew members of flight PS752 of Ukraine International Airlines JSC, who died in a plane crash on January 8, 2020 near Tehran.
The corresponding decree No. 600/2020 was signed by the Head of State on December 29.
For heroism and selfless actions shown in the line of duty, the title of Hero of Ukraine was posthumously awarded to the aircraft commander Vladimir Gaponenko, the aircraft commander - instructor pilot Alexei Naumkin, co-pilot Sergei Khomenko, senior flight attendants Ekaterina Statnik and Igor Matykov, flight attendants Denis. ua.
Recall, on January 8, after takeoff from Tehran airport named after. Imam Khomeini crashed the plane Boeing-737 of the Ukrainian airline "
Onboard there were 167 passengers and nine crew members. They all died.
Among the dead - 11 citizens of Ukraine (including 9 crew members), 82 citizens of Iran, 63 - Canada, 10 - Sweden, four - Afghanistan, three - Germany and the UK.
On January 11, Iran said the plane was mistakenly shot down by a surface-to-air missile. Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) claims responsibility for plane crash.
The media suggested that Iran would hesitate to transfer the recorders to another country, fearing that additional details of the disaster would emerge, including the 20 seconds between the first and second surface-to-air missiles hitting the Boeing-737.
In March, Iran's official representative to the International Civil Aviation Organization agreed to transfer flight recorders to France or Ukraine for analysis, but this has not been done so far..
Iran detained six accused in connection with the case of the shooting down of the plane.
On July 30, in Kiev, negotiations were held between the Iranian and Ukrainian delegations regarding compensation for the relatives of those killed in this plane crash.
Iran agrees to pay compensation for the downing of UIA plane.
Later, Iran withdrew the offer to pay the families of the victims, because they wanted to allocate funds for compensation from the National Development Fund..
On December 21, Iran announced that the technical report on the crash of the Ukrainian UIA plane has been completed and will soon be made public.
Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Yevhen Yenin said that Iran has not yet submitted to Ukraine a draft technical report on the causes of the plane crash.
Inf. for-ua. com.