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Description: 'I am livid': After the Flight 752 disaster killed his colleague's wife and son, Michael McCain on Sunday night held the Trump administration responsible. Canadian CEO says the United States shares blame for Iran plane crash. The CEO of a Canadian company affected by last week's plane crash near Tehran has lashed out against the Trump administration's handling of the crisis in relations between the United States and Iran. Michael McCain, chief executive of Canadian food packaging company Maple Leaf Foods (MLFNF), said one of his colleagues lost his wife and 11-year-old son after Iranian forces shot down the Ukrainian Airlines jet Wednesday, killing all 176 people on board. McCain said Sunday night in a series of tweets posted on his company's verified Twitter account that he believes President Donald Trump's actions in the Middle East were ultimately responsible for their deaths, describing them as "the collateral damage" of an "ill-conceived plan to divert attention from political woes." The flight crashed shortly after taking off from Tehran's airport. Iran has said that it mistakenly shot down the plane just a few hours after it fired missiles at Iraqi military bases housing US troops. The attacks on those bases came in retaliation for a US drone strike at Baghdad's airport, which killed top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani. Fifty-seven Canadians were killed in the crash. The victims also included 82 Iranians, 11 Ukrainians, 10 Swedes, four Afghans, three Germans and three British nationals. "I am very angry, and time isn't making me less angry," McCain wrote, calling the recent incidents in Iran "a needless, irresponsible series of events." Despite having a modest presence on Twitter — the company's account has just over 2,400 followers — the comments stoked immediate reaction online. Around 2 a.m. Eastern Time on Monday, McCain's initial tweet had been liked about 27,000 times and retweeted 8,500 times. His additional tweets also received thousands of likes, retweets and replies. #MichaelMcCain #mapleleaf #iran #canadian #crash #trump #canada