Iran mistakenly shot down the Ukrainian plane that crashed on Wednesday near Tehran with 176 people on board, US media report.
US officials say they believe the Ukrainian International Airlines Boeing 737-800 was hit by a missile, CBS says.
Ukraine earlier said it was examining whether a missile strike brought down the aircraft - but Iran ruled this out.
The crash came just hours after Iran carried out missile strikes on two airbases housing US forces in Iraq.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy lays flowers to commemorate victims of the Ukraine International Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane crash, at a memorial in Boryspil International Airport [Ukrainian Presidential Press Service/Handout via Reuters]
CBS News quoting US intelligence said a satellite detected infrared "blips" of two missile launches, followed by another blip of an explosion.
Meanwhile, Newsweek quoted a Pentagon and a senior US intelligence officials, as well as an Iraqi intelligence official as saying they believed the Ukrainian plane was hit by a Russian-made Tor missile.
People and rescue teams amid bodies and debris after a Ukrainian plane carrying 176 passengers crashed near Imam Khomeini airport. ISNA/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES
US President Donald Trump on Thursday said "I have my suspicions" over the plane. "Somebody could have made a mistake," he said.
Amid tensions heightened by the US killing of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani on 3 January, Iran has said it will not hand over the recovered black box flight recorders to Boeing, the plane's manufacturer, or to the US.
Debris of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 near Tehran, Iran, on Wednesday. Mahmoud Hosseini/picture alliance via Getty Images
Under global aviation rules Iran has the right to lead the investigation, but manufacturers are typically involved.
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