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Old 11th Jan 2020, 19:50
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Originally Posted by fireflybob
Does anyone know which other operators departed Tehran and flew this departure between the time when missiles were launched to US bases in Iraq and maybe an hour or two after the Ukrainian aircraft came to grief?
It appears that Lufthansa, Turkish, Aeroflot, Qatar, Iran Air and a couple of others operated out in those hours.

Here's a list of January 8 departures from IKA as listed on FlightAware. It does appear that the eastbound flights did follow roughly the same track. Times out are local Tehran time.

From the BBC:

Two Iraqi bases housing US and coalition troops were targeted, one at Al Asad and one in Irbil, at about 02:00 local time on Wednesday (22:30 GMT on Tuesday). It came just hours after the burial of Soleimani, who controlled Iran's proxy forces across the Middle East.

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