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A memorial event next week will honour members of the UWindsor community who died in the January 2020 crash of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752

Windsor prof gets gift from student who died in Iran plane crash 1 year after she died CBC/Radio-Canada © Submitted by Sahar Nikoo Samira Bashiri, left, was a researcher at the University of Windsor. Her husband, Hamidreza Setareh Kokab, right, was a PhD student in mechanical engineering. Samira Bashiri had intended to return to Windsor from Iran with a gift, a piece of artwork for professor Lisa Porter. Bashiri, who worked as a research assistant at Porter's biomedical lab at the University of Windsor, never made it back. She and her husband were killed after their...

1 year after Iran plane crash, Windsor community still healing and remembering lives lost It's been one year since Ukraine International Airlines Flight PS752 was "mistakenly" shot down by the Iranian government, killing all 176 passengers on board. Social Sharing

  WINDSOR, ONT -- Friends and colleagues at the University of Windsor are still grieving, one year after flight PS752 crashed in Ukraine, killing all 176 people on board the plane. The flight, from Tehran to Kyiv, on route to Canada, was shot town shortly after takeoff by a surface-to-air missile launched by Iran. Among the victims were 82 Iranians, 62 Canadian citizens and five people – returning to Canada after the holidays – were part of the University of Windsor community. Zahra Naghibi was a PhD student at the turbulence and energy lab. Her husband, Mohammad Abbas Pourghaddi, ...

  Pedram Mousavi sat with the other passengers on Ukrainian International Airlines Flight PS752 as it remained parked on the tarmac south of Iran's capital, Tehran, about an hour behind schedule in the pre-dawn darkness. It was Jan. 8, 2020. Amid escalating tensions between the United States and Iran, Mousavi texted a friend: "I just want to get out of this mess." Mousavi, a University of Alberta engineering professor, his wife Mojgan Daneshmand, also an engineering prof, and their daughters Daria, 14, and Dorina, 9, were among 167 passengers and nine crew members on the flight. Shortly...