Video Appears to Show Moment Ukrainian Airliner Is Struck by Missile Over Iran

Part of the wreckage from Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752, a Boeing 737-800 plane that crashed after taking off from Tehran's Imam Khomeini airport on Jan. 8, 2020, is seen in this still image taken from Iran Press footage. Iran Press/Handout via Reuters

A video obtained by several news outlets appears to show a missile hitting a plane near Tehran’s airport before it went down.

The New York Times and CNN said the plane appears to have been struck above Parand, Iran, which near where a Ukrainian jetliner stopped transmitting signals before it went down, killing all 176 people on board.