NEW video reportedly shows the moment two missiles hit a doomed Ukrainian passenger plane, sending it spiralling to the ground and killing all 176 passengers aboard.

A burst of bright orange light can be seen flashing across the sky miles from the site of the crash, footage obtained by the New York Times apparently shows.

A camera on the roof of a building near the village of Bikandeh captured the new footage, which the Times said was uploaded to YouTube by an Iranian user at around 2am Tuesday.The charred remains of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 were next seen strewn across the ground, including the plane's blown-out, blackened window panes.

The missiles were launched from an Iranian military site roughly eight miles from the plane.

Islamic Republic officials said the launch was a mistake, as it came on the same night Iran launched missiles at a U.S. base in Iraq.

Military leaders were reportedly preparing for a counter-strike when the Ukraine flight was mistaken for an enemy aircraft.

The new video appears to confirm that the transponder stopped working before the first missile hit the aircraft.

A second strike hit the plane about 23 seconds later, the newspaper reported.

Minutes later, the aircraft exploded and crashed near Khalaj Abad, a town southwest of Tehran.

Neither strike downed the plane immediately.

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