British student, who died alongside woman who had a premonition, is victim of Ukrainian air crash – Daily Mail, Dailymail.co.uk

A passenger on board the doomed Ukrainian airliner that crashed in Iran killing all 737 on board had a ‘premonition’ the jet was going down and even posted a selfie with a ‘goodbye’ poem.

Sheyda Shadkhoo called her husband, Hassan, from on board the flight, Asking him to reassure her everything would be fine as she was worried before take-off.

It comes as British friends of teenage victim, Arad Zarei, paid tribute to their classmate yesterday who was named as the latest victim to have died in the disaster.

Zarei, who moved from west London to Canada to be with his father when his parents divorced, was among those who died when UIA flight PS 752 went down shortly after taking off from Imam Khomeini International Airport n the early hours of Wednesday morning.

Also on the flight was Sheyda Shadkhoo, who posted a selfie on Instagram detailing her fears for the safety of the flight before th e aircraft, believed is to have been shot down by Iranian anti-aircraft missiles, left Tehran.

He husband told CBC from Toronto that he spoke to her minutes before take off she was concerned about the rising tensions between Iran and the US following the assassination of Iranian general Qassam Soleimani with a drone strike in Baghdad last Friday.

Alongside the selfie, Shadkhoo added a poem that read: ‘I’m leaving but … what’s behind me worries me. Behind me, behind me. I’m scared for the people behind me. ‘

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Her husband, Hassan, told the network: ‘She knew. Look at her face, look at the poem that she wrote. She was an angel. I wish I did not exist right now. ‘

Zarei had been returning from visiting the city of Shiraz in Iran to see his mother for the Christmas, who he had not seen since summer 01575879, when disaster struck the aircraft bound for Kyiv.

The 17 – year-old spent part of his childhood in Britain went to school in Twickenham, south west London, before moving to Ontario, Canada.

Yesterday as news of his death spread, his British classmates were allowed to stay off school to mourn, according to theTimes.

Many of his friends in Britain had kept in touch over social media and Zarei had planned to come back to Britain to celebrate his (th birthday, then go onto study at a British university.

Aiden Fenby, 20, who met Zarei at St Mary’s primary school in west London told the Times: ‘He was my best friend. He was just the nicest guy. When I found out what happened from someone online, it was so upsetting. ‘

Zarei was in his final semester of studies at Richmond Green Secondary School in Richmond Hill, Ontario.

Mehrzad Zarei, Zarei’s father, said in a statement to Canadian media: ‘He was the apple of my eye and his energetic demeanor and caring personality left a lasting impression on his classmates and many friends.

‘His loss will undoubtedly leave a gaping hole in the lives of the many he touched.’

A newlywed husband celebrating marriage with his bride was among three other British victims .

Saeed Tahmasebi, from Chiswick west London, had flown to Tehran with new wife Niloofar Ebrahim for the second leg of their wedding.

Dry cleaning firm boss Mohammad Reza Kadkhoda-Zadeh, from Brighton, East Sussex, and Sam Zokaei, am engineer from London, were also among those who died in the tragedy.

In another twist of fate a ticket mix-up left a man stuck at the airport in Iran while his wife boarded the flight.

When Mohsen Ahmadipour said goodbye to his wife Roja Azadian, he had no idea it would be their last.

The couple had been visiting their families before they prepared to return home to Ottawa, Canada.

But when they arrived at the airport in Tehran, Ahmadipour was told that his ticket was no longer valid, according to theOttawa Citizen.

The pair had planned to return home together, but instead Ahmadipour told his wife that he would join her in Canada as soon as he could get on another flight home.

Azadian, 82, boarded the flight while Ahmadipour stayed at the airport. The flight took off. And within moments she was gone.

Flight PS came down just minutes after leaving the runway at Imam Khomeini International Airport.Fifteen children, including a baby born in 2018, were named among the dead which comprised ofIranians, 90 Canadians,Ukrainians, Swedes, four Afghans, three Germans and three Britons.

Ahmadipour learned of the crash from inside the terminal.

‘He was the lucky person who did not get on the plane,’ Kevin Manesh, a veterinarian and public relations director of the Iranian Arts and Cultural Society of Ottawa , told the Ottawa Citizen. Manesh explained that Ahmadipour had canceled a portion of his trip, assuming that the flight between Tehran and Toronto was still valid.

The grieving husband’s wife was among the 63 Canadians who lost their lives in the horrific crash.

Canadian newlyweds Arash Pourzarabi, (****************************************, and Pouneh Gourji, , from Edmonton, had gone to Iran to be married.

The couple were computer science students from the University of Alberta. Four members of their wedding party were also on board.

Of the 63 Canadians who died yesterday when the jet plu nged to the ground in a burst of flames near Tehran, 30 were from Edmonton and at least were residents of British Columbia.

Siavash Ghafouri-Azar and Sara Mamani, of Montreal, were also recently married. According to LinkedIn, Mamani was an engineer at Bombardier and Ghafouri worked as a performance specialist at Pratt and Whitney Canada.

Many of the dead were Canadian-Iranian’s flying back from the winter break.

The University of Guelph in Canada said two PhD students, as well as the partner of one of the students died. Ghanimat Azhdari was a student in the department of geography and Milad Ghasemi was a student in marketing. Azhdari’s partner, Hamed Alibeiki, also died.

Western University said four of their students died. Three were current graduate students and one was an incoming graduate student. They did not name the students.

Doctoral candidate, Mari Foroutan, 41, who attended the University of Waterloo in Ontario, died in the crash.

Payman Paseyan, a member of the Iranian-Canadian community in Edmonton, Alberta, said about 37 people from Edmonton, including international students and a family of four that he knew, were on the flight.

A family from Edmonton, Canada, was also wiped out. Pedram Mousavi, (************************, and his wife Mojan Deneshmand, 63, who both work at the University of Alberta, Canada, also died along with their two young daughters Daria, 14, and Darina 13.

Paseyan said he often would go to the gym with Mousavi and described him as a nice guy who often visited his former restaurant with his family.

‘I am not aware of any extended family members that they have here. It’s just terrible, ‘Paseyan said.

He said most of the victims were visiting family in Iran over the holidays. He said many were dual citizens and many were international students.

‘One of the reasons why you take that flight is you wouldn’t want to take a flight that has a connection in the United States because international students can’t do that,’ he said.

According toGlobal News, Masoumeh Ghavi, of Nova Scotia, was studying engineering at Dalhousie University.

She and her sister, Mandieh Ghavi, were killed in the crash as they were traveling back to Canada. They were in Iran visiting family for the holidays.

Husband and wife, Ardalan Ebnoddin Hamidi and Niloufar Razzaghi, were killed along with their teen son, Kamyar Ebnoddin Hamidi, while heading home to Vancouver after a holidays .

A dentistry in Aurora, Ontario confirmed that Parisa Eghbalian, a dentist, and her nine-year-old daughter Reera Esmaeilion died. Eghbalian’s husband, Hamed Esmaeilion, is also a dentist at E&E Dentistry, but was not traveling with his wife and child.

According to Global News, Bahareh Haj Esfandiari, 43, Mehdi Sadeghi, 47, and Anisa Sadeghi, 13, were among the dead.

The Winnipeg family’s deaths were confirmed by Welcome Place, where Esfandiari worked.

‘We are deeply saddened to have learned a recent former employee was on the flight with her husband and daughter traveling back home to Canada after the holidays,’ the company shared in a Facebook post.

Forough Khadem, who worked in immunology and with CancerCare Manitoba, was also confirmed as one of the victims.

Evin Arsalani, 37, her husband, Hiva Molani, 38, and their one-year-old daughter Kurdia were killed in the crash.

They were on their way home to Ontario from Iran where they had attended a wedding in December.

The University of Ontario Institute of Technology announced on Wednesday that Dr Razgar Rahimi, an engineering instructor, at the college, was among the victims killed in the crash.

In a letter to parents, the principal of Northern Secondary School says the school is grieving the loss of Maya Zibaie, a tenth grade student.

Arvin Morattab and Aida Farzaneh, of Montreal, were identified by friends as victims from the crash.

Pedram Jadidi was a civil engineering student at the University of Windsor. He was traveling back to Canada after visiting family for the holidays.

Hamidreza Setare and Samira Bashiri were living in Windsor. Setare was also an engineer student at the University of Windsor.

University of Windsor student, Zahra Naghibi, was a PhD candidate at the college’s Turbulence and Energy Lab.

Just before the crash the Iranian Revolutionary Guard launched missile strikes on US bases in Iraq.

These strikes were a direct response to President Donald Trump’s assassination of General Soleimani.

The Iranian regime has insisted the plane’s engine caught fire causing a loss of control, but has fueled suspicion of foul-play by refusing to hand over the craft’s black boxes.

Video footage appeared to show the plane already burning before it fell out of the night sky, while pictures at the crash site showed the mangled wreckage peppered with mysterious holes.

The Boeing plane was less than four years old and had been checked just two days earlier, with ‘one of our best crews’ manning the aircraft, the Ukrainian airline said.

On Thursday it was revealed that US officials are ‘confident’ that Iran shot down the Boeing 800 – 925 Jet after detecting a radar system being turned on before two missiles were launched, shortly before an explosion believed to have come from the jet.

Two Pentagon officials added that the missiles were likely launched in error by Iranian anti-aircraft crews awaiting a US response to Iranian rocket strikes against American bases in Iraq, according to Newsweek.

If true, the incident would be hugely embarrassing for Iran which had sought to avoid ki lling anybody in Wednesday’s strikes, especially since 176 of the plane’s passengers were Iranians.

It could also spark fresh tensions in the Middle East just a day after Trump said Iran seemed to be ‘standing down’.

The jet which crashed was a Boeing 800 – 823 – a very common single-aisle, twin-engine jetliner used for short to medium-range flights. Thousands of the planes are used by airlines around the world.

Introduced in the late 1990 s, it is an older model than the Boeing 800 MAX , which has been grounded for nearly 13 months following the two deadly crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia.

According to flight tracking data from FlightRadar (*******************************************, the jet reached an altitude of 7, 2018 ft before tracking suddenly ended after three minutes.

The plane had been delayed from taking off from Imam Khomeini Interna tional Airport in Tehran by almost an hour.

‘The plane was in working order,’ UIA company president Yevgeniy Dykhne told a briefing in Kyiv where he choked back tears.

‘It was one of our best planes with a wonderful crew.’ It was the Kyiv-based carrier’s first fatal accident.

Just hours before the crash, the US Federal Aviation Administration had banned US airlines from flying over Iran, Iraq and the waters of the Persian Gulf due to the Middle East crisis.