DUBAI — The last tweet sent by a user named Sorush before taking off from Iran on a doomed Ukrainian airliner on his way back to university in Canada suggested he knew he was flying into danger. "I was predicting that war would break out just at the time of my flight. Forgive me for anything bad I might have done," he tweeted in Farsi before the plane left Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran on Wednesday. Minutes later, the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737 had crashed, and all 176 people on board were dead. Images circulating on social media, which could not be independently verified, suggest it came down in a ball of flames.

Source: International New York Times January 11, 2020 03:11 UTC