Iran sends black boxes from downed UIA plane to France – media
“Iran has sent the black box of the Ukrainian passenger jet that its armed forces mistakenly shot down in January to France for reading,” AP reports, referring to an Iranian semi-official news agency.
According to Mohsen Baharvand, an aide to Iran’s foreign minister, the downed jet’s black boxes were transported to Paris on Friday, accompanied by Iranian civil aviation and judicial officials
He also also said the black boxes will be read in Paris on Monday.
The Ukraine International Airlines (UIA) plane (flight PS752) heading from Tehran to Kyiv crashed shortly after it took off from the Imam Khomeini International Airport at about 06:00 Tehran time (04:30 Kyiv time) on January 8. There were 176 people on board – nine crew members (all Ukrainians) and 167 passengers (citizens of Ukraine, Iran, Canada, Sweden, Afghanistan, Germany, and the UK). They all died.
It emerged later that the UIA plane had been shot down by two missiles of the Tor-M1 air defense system, which Iran received from Russia.
The International Coordination and Response Group for the Victims of Flight PS752 Crash insisted on the transfer of flight recorders to France which has the necessary technical capabilities for decoding them.
Six people charged with the downing of flight PS752 were detained in Iran.
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