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What was known by 16 January 2020 on Tehran crash
Summary
A look back at the Iranian admission over the Ukrainian airliner and a minor quake in Zakarpattia, as reported in the days before.
What had become clear by 16 January 2020 about the Boeing 737 that came down near Tehran? As reported on 11 January 2020, Iran's president officially acknowledged that the country's armed forces had shot down the aircraft of Ukraine International Airlines (MAU) by mistake, using a missile, not far from the Iranian capital.
The admission put the cause of the disaster on record: a missile strike, described as an error, rather than any fault of the aircraft itself.
A minor quake in Zakarpattia
Separately, on 10 January 2020 an earthquake of magnitude 3.0 on the Richter scale struck near Vynohradiv in Ukraine's Zakarpattia region. No destruction or fatalities were reported.
The two events were unrelated, and they reached Ukrainian readers within a day of each other: one a deadly aviation disaster whose cause Tehran officially acknowledged, the other a small tremor that caused no reported harm.
