Government liability for air accidents: A case study of Ukrainian Airlines Flight 752

Today, the air transport industry is one of the most important ways of communication between countries.Despite the advantages of using airplanes,accidents are inevitable.Therefore, at the level of international law,aviation security and the identification of those responsible for accidents and incidents have become the subject of numerous conventions. In domestic law, regulations and various organizations are in charge of flight matters.On 18/10/2018, a Ukrainian plane that was leaving Tehran for Kyiv was targeted by Iranian air defenses, and the cause of this incident was stated to be human error.Considering that the nature of the accident caused the death of all 176 passengers of the plane, the basic question here is what duties and responsibilities Iran has towards the survivors and what basic steps it should take in order to fulfill its obligations.Therefore, this research has been carried out with the aim of examining the legal obligations of the Iranian government towards the survivors of Flight 752 according to Iranian laws and international laws. The main question in this research is the examination of the limits of civil and legal responsibility of the Iranian government for the aforementioned incident.The results of this research show that, from the international point of view, the conditions are ready for the realization of the government's legal responsibility, and from the point of view of domestic law, the government is responsible for compensating the damage caused to the survivors. The research method in this study is descriptive-analytical, and the library method was used to collect the sources.