Everything was normal in leadup to doomed Tehran-Toronto flight
Sheyda Shadkhoo was afraid as she boarded the flight from Tehran that was supposed to have eventually returned her to her family in Toronto. She thought she was leaving trouble behind, not flying into it.
“Behind me, behind me,” she wrote in a poem she sent her husband minutes before the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing taxied down the runway.
“I’m scared for the people behind me.”
The poem and the fears she expressed for Iranian people amid growing tensions between that country and the United States were the last Hassan Shadkhoo heard from his wife of 10 years.