In its final communication, the doomed jet was told to turn

In its final communication, the doomed jet was told to turn

The final interactions between the doomed Ukraine International Airline flight 752 and the dispatch tower at Tehran airport involved instructions for the plane to turn, according to airline officials who declined to provide additional details.

“We have been reassured that [the aircraft] had the dialogue with the airport, with the dispatcher tower, until the last moment of the catastrophe," the airline’s CEO Yevgenii Dyhkne said Saturday at a press conference in Kiev.

"There were negotiations about the route, they had permission to turn, so all of this is now connected to the investigation and I’m sure it will be available in documents in time,” he added.

Asked what the final words of the pilot were, Dykhne said he couldn’t comment on the details but UIA Vice President Ihor Sosnovsky added that the final communication between the plane and the tower was a command from the tower to “take an altitude and turn.”

Sosnovsky later added: “I do not have the right to tell you what they’ve said. That’s dishonest and that’s not right to do because this is the investigation materials, I have no right to tell you what they’ve said."