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Iran sends black boxes from downed Ukrainian airliner to France for analysis
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleIran has sent black boxes from the Ukranian airliner that crashed in January to France for analysis, a Foreign Ministry official tells the Reuters news agency.
One hundred seventy-six people were killed when Iran’s Revolutionary Guard shot down the plane, mistaking it for a hostile target amid a period of heightened tensions with the US.
“The black boxes were transported to Paris yesterday by officials of the Civil Aviation Authority and a judge,” Mohsen Baharvand, Iran’s deputy foreign minister for international and legal affairs tells the semi-official ILNA news agency.
He says France will begin analyzing the black boxes, and praises France for its cooperation in the effort.
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