Iran blames bad communication, alignment for jet shootdown

Iranian investigators are blaming a misaligned missile battery and miscommunication between soldiers and their commanders for the Revolutionary Guard shooting down a Ukrainian jetliner in January, killing 176 people

The report released late Saturday by Iran's Civil Aviation Organisation comes months after the crash

The shootdown happened the same night Iran launched a ballistic missile attack targeting US soldiers in Iraq over the American drone strike that earlier killed Guard General Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad.

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