Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's comments came as video emerged that appeared to show the moment the Ukrainian airliner was hit.
With tensions high between the United States and Iran, the disaster unfolded just hours after Tehran launched ballistic missiles towards bases in Iraq housing US troops.The Iranian government said the missile strike scenario made"no sense," however, arguing that several internal and international flights had been sharing approximately the same airspace.
Investigators are pursuing several possibilities, including engine failure, a missile strike or an act of terror. Ali Abedzadeh, head of Iran's civil aviation organization and deputy transport minister, said Iran and Ukraine were"downloading information" from the aircraft's black boxes retrieved from the crash site.
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