Worried passenger called her husband shortly before Ukrainian jet crashed: Trusting God’s power in perilous times
The Daily Article
The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 10 January 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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THE DAILY ARTICLE FOR JANUARY 10, 2020
A worried passenger called her husband shortly before her flight crashed in Tehran Wednesday morning. Today's podcast discusses this tragedy and reports blaming Iranian anti-aircraft missiles for the disaster, then points to the only path to true happiness in our broken world.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Daily Article podcast, published by the Denison Forum for Culture-Changing Christians. |
| 0:07.8 | To receive the Daily article directly to your email inbox each weekday morning, visit |
| 0:12.5 | thedailyarticle.com. Now here's today's news, discerned differently. |
| 0:19.8 | 20 minutes before her flight took off from Tehran Wednesday morning, Sheda Shadku called her husband |
| 0:25.6 | from aboard the airplane. |
| 0:27.6 | She had been visiting her mother and sisters in Iran and was heading back to her husband in |
| 0:32.6 | Canada. |
| 0:33.6 | She was concerned about tensions between Tehran and the U.S. |
| 0:36.6 | According to her husband, she had a premonition that her plane was going down and was worried |
| 0:42.2 | about the people she would leave behind. |
| 0:44.6 | She wanted me to assure her that there wasn't going to be a war. |
| 0:48.0 | I told her not to worry. |
| 0:49.8 | Nothing's going to happen, her husband told reporters. |
| 0:52.9 | She said, okay, they're telling me to turn off my phone. |
| 0:56.0 | Goodbye. That was it. Sheda Shadku is one of 176 people who died when Ukraine International Airlines, |
| 1:04.3 | UIA, Flight 752 crashed shortly after takeoff. |
| 1:11.3 | U.S., Canadian and British officials said yesterday it was highly likely that an Iranian anti-aircraft |
| 1:17.9 | missile downed the jetliner. They said the strike could well have been a mistake amid rocket |
| 1:23.3 | launches and high tension in the region. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau stated, |
| 1:28.8 | we have intelligence from multiple sources, including our allies and our own intelligence. The evidence |
| 1:34.9 | indicates that the plane was shot down by an Iranian surface to air missile. UIA Flight 752 stopped |
| 1:42.0 | transmitting data just minutes after takeoff and not long after Iran launched |
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