According to CNN, Sheyda Shadkhoo, a female passenger on the fateful Ukrainian flight, is on a 3-week leave to visit her mother and sisters living in Tehran. The vacation ended and she had to return to Toronto, Canada to reunite with her husband, Hassan Shadkhoo.
20 minutes before the plane took off from Tehran airport, she called her husband and hoped him to reassure her that everything would be fine.
"I spoke to her... 20 minutes before the plane took off," Shadkhoo recalled on the evening of January 8 in Toronto, Canada. She is worried about tensions between Tehran and the US after President Trump ordered the death of Iran's top general last week.
"She wanted me to reassure her that there would be no war. I told her not to worry. nothing will happen," CNN quoted Shadkhoo as saying. "She said Ok, they asked me to turn off my phone. Goodbye".
The flight of the Ukrainian international airline could not reach the destination of the journey. It crashed just minutes after takeoff, killing 176 passengers on board, including Sheyda and 62 other Canads.
Hassan Shadkhoo said his wife was not good about flights, and worried about the people she left behind. She posted a photo on Instagram expressing her fear before leaving Iran.
"She knew that. Look at her face. Look at the poem she wrote." Mr. Shadkhoo said and raised the phone with a photo of her, read what she wrote, and his voice choked up.
"I am leaving but... what is behind me makes me worried," Mr. Shadkhoo read the line written by his wife, "Behind me, behind me. I am afraid of those behind me."
Hassan Shadkhoo said he was devastated and could not imagine how he would live without his wife of 10 years. He was en route to meet his wife's relatives in Tehran on the evening of January 8.
He told CNN: "She's an angel. I don't want to live anymore."
There have been conflicting reports about the cause of the accident, with Ukraine saying it will not speculate on anything.
The Ukrainian plane crash came just hours after Iran launched a series of missiles at two US military bases in revenge for the killing of General Quasem Soleimani, raising questions about the time of the crash.
