Iran to hand over black boxes of downed Ukraine jet to France for
analysis
Iran has requested help with repairing and downloading data from
the Cockpit Voice Recorder and the Flight Data Recorder of the Ukraine
International Airlines Flight 752.
Iran told the U.N.'s aviation agency
that it would send black boxes from a downed Ukrainian jetliner to Paris for
analysis, once countries involved in the investigation agree.
The other
countries involved are Ukraine, Canada and the United States. Canada previously
pressed Iran to send the black boxes to France for analysis.
"An Iranian
aviation team will transfer the black boxes to France and data extraction will
begin on July 20, if nothing happens out of the ordinary," Mohsen Baharvand, the
deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, was quoted as
saying by the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.
After initially
denying any responsibility for the crash, Iranian officials were forced to admit
that an IRGC air defence battery unintentionally shot down the airliner minutes
after departing Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport amid heightened
tensions with US forces in neighbouring Iraq.
Iran has requested help
with repairing and downloading data from the Cockpit Voice Recorder and the
Flight Data Recorder of the Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752, the Civil
Aviation Safety Investigation Authority tweeted.
However, Iran has
refused to hand over the flight recorders from the Ukraine International
Airlines flight, which was shot down on January 8 near Tehran by an Iranian
surface-to-air missile, killing 176 people including 55 Canadian citizens and 30
permanent residents.
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